How Strong Is Your Company's Talent Management?

How Strong Is Your Company's Talent Management?

Leaders fret about whether they have the talent they need to compete in the ever-changing market in which they play. This is one of those nagging concerns for CEOs. One of the reasons this concern doesn’t go away is many CEOs recognize that their company doesn’t have the talent management skills that enable a stable and predictable flow of quality leaders.

How To Cut Costs Without Damaging Your Culture

How To Cut Costs Without Damaging Your Culture

Companies sometimes have to make difficult business decisions. One of my clients is a company like that. They recently needed to make major expense cuts, in the range of half a billion dollars, and this meant dozens of policy changes and lots of changes to the way that the company’s procurement policy and vendor management works. These large, systematic cuts are a big deal and have a real impact on the strength of the company, its ability to invest and compete in the future, and so they should be easy to explain.