Richard Thaler, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, coined the term “sludge” for administrative burdens that include: selecting from multiple ill-defined options completing paperwork requirements filling in forms navigating confusing websites dealing...
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It is a real and growing presence in business. Moreover, for many organizations, AI streamlines operations and improves decision-making with...
Over my career, I have likely spent more than 15,000 hours in meetings. The excellent sessions had the right people in the room. All the participants came to the meeting...
The accelerating rate of change in business, the economy and society challenges both business and HR to adopt new rules for leading, organizing, motivating, managing and engaging the 21st-century workforce....
Google hires people with no human resources experience to work in its People Operations function. This approach enables the tech company to produce modern ways of managing performance management. Project...
Job candidates have tremendous access to employer information today. That had altered the way well-informed workers find and consider new work opportunities. Here's a look at how the search process...
Intuition is an essential trait of executives. However, you ought to resist the urge to go immediately with your gut when weighing a significant business matter to arrive at the...
The biggest challenge facing any executive is failing to execute strategy — especially those with a strong strategic orientation. Most are terrible at it as they are too internally focused. Also, they...
If you're looking to create a workplace culture that thrives and inspires continuous success, is fair and transparent. Here's what else provides employee satisfaction and makes people happy in their...
Lisa Hartley has been in the heart of Silicon Valley in marketing, sales and product leadership roles for two decades with human capital management software with companies including SuccessFinder, SuccessFactors,...
Companies need high potential leaders more than ever before. Adapting to today's digitally-driven business environment requires exceptional talent. If you meet the top potential criteria, you are in high demand....
Innovative ideas are not just about adding another feature or an adjacent market. You are already furiously working on these sorts of developments. Where are your chances of creating a...
For the past year, I have been writing about how artificial intelligence (AI) and your workforce. In our insight, AI benefits your business and employees; we advance that choosing to...
Every success and mishap; every opportunity seized or missed is the result of a decision that someone made or did not produce. Choices routinely get stuck and affect the performance,...
Teams have the potential to outperform individuals. High-performance decision-making teams do better because they have the right people working on a task. Team members have diverse skills and perspectives that...
As highlighted in Viable Vision, using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) most companies today do not seem to have the right roadmap to their vision, which means their vision is not...
In today's world, holding an unpopular opinion can often...
The most important thing in my engineering education was...
Nobody likes annual performance reviews. Even high...
The question of when the Contrecoeur trial will finally hear...
The notion of giving to others may seem counterintuitive as...
The following article reviews two organizational change...
What is Predictive Analysis? Predictive Analytics considers...
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Kim Allen brings clients a big-picture view that balances innovative thinking with the practical mindset that can only be gained by leading organizations. He draws on his 25+ years of accomplishment as a chief executive in the public, private, regulatory, and association sectors and experience across all major business functional areas. As an agile leader, Kim works with business leaders around the world to build and strengthen governance, strategy, organizational alignment, and operational excellence. Also, he works with clients to find and develop exceptional leaders. Kim cares about the people and understands the bottom line.