People Matters

Empowering buyers to buy

Jun 1st 2011

More Than HR (MTHR Global), a rapidly growing and dynamic HRD movement across India invited to their “off line” meeting this month - Bob Urichuck, Certified Sales Professional, Certified Master Trainer, Certified Social Entrepreneur. He shares with People Matters his learning on how to sell without selling.Sales intensive industries that are relatively new in India like banking, financial services, insurance and telecom are struggling to find talent for their front-sales positions.... Read more »

Are you Great Boss?

May 15th 2011

While most leaders make the mistake of starting with ‘managing others’, they need to reverse the cycle and start with ‘managing themselves’ and then look outward to create value through an effective team, emphasizes Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business SchoolWhat was your inspiration to write Being the Boss? In my role as Faculty Chair of Leadership Initiative at Harvard Busi... Read more »

Local Talent Crunch? The Expatriate Solution

Apr 15th 2011

Paul O'Malley, Regional Leader IPS for Asia Pacific, Mercer talks to People Matters on globalization of talent pools and its opportunities for growing Indian businessesWhat challenges face Indian companies when looking at global expansion? Most challenges are common to all companies regardless of their country of origin, and most significant are those related to cultural differences that become evident when expanding operations outside the home country. These cultural differences are related... Read more »

4 Steps to Reduce Your Cost of Hiring

Apr 15th 2011

Dr. Scott Erker, SVP Selection Solutions, DDI shares his views with People Matters, on the latest trends in hiring and talent acquisition across the globe. Excerpts from a face to face interaction with Dr. ErkerAfter spending years in the field of assessments & in building talent acquisition systems across many global organizations, my view of the global talent acquisition space is that it resembles a “staffing schizophrenia”. This situation is a combination of many pieces comi... Read more »

IT/ITeS Sector at the Crossroads

By Aron Ain

Nov 1st 2010

The Indian IT/ITeS sector is at an extremely crucial inflection point in the current economic scenario and must address the critical challenges of rising labor costs and attrition to accelerate growthBusinesses across the world are under tremendous pressure to change and adjust to a shifting global economy. In the Indian context, the IT/ITeS industry has been at the forefront leading dramatic changes to many parts of Indian business and society. Massive employment including jobs for thousands ... Read more »

Cover Story: How to Hire a CEO that Lasts

By Ron Ashkenas and Justin Wasserman

Oct 1st 2010

 Hiring a successful CEO is no rocket science. All that companies need to do is to go beyond the traditional process of selection and create mechanisms for exploring the inert capabilities of the candidateRon Ashkenas and Justin WassermanNot long ago, a CEO of a major corporation called it quits after being there for only two years. Although the official statement said that he left ‘for personal reasons’, in truth he was not a good fit with the company, had alienated many of h... Read more »

Virtuously Virtual

By Julian Birkinshaw

May 1st 2010

The virtual organization has long been a neat theory. Now organizations throughout the world are turning it into reality.It is only when the tide goes out you can see who’s swimming naked. And so, it is only when times get tough that you see whose business and management models are most robust. The global downturn that we faced last year has exposed the frailties of many organizations and confirmed the strengths of others.One model that looks increasingly robust in difficult times is the... Read more »

Breaking the Glass Ceiling - The Rise of Women as Leaders

By Alice H. Eagly & Linda L. Carli

May 1st 2010

The fact of women’s rising status raises questions about how some women succeed and how organizations and societies move towards the inclusion of women in positions of authority reveals Alice H. Eagly & Linda L. CarliNot long ago, it was popularto describe women as facing a glass ceiling in their careers. This solid barrier blocked women from rising to high positions. However, much has changed since then.Today, women have become the face of social change. Be it developed or developin... Read more »

Emerging Leadership

By Dr. Wayne Brockbank

Apr 1st 2010

The explosive growth rate in emerging markets is obvious to all. The growth rates in Brazil, Russia, India and China over the last decade have been dramatic; equally dramatic are the early rates in other emerging markets such as Turkey, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. How these disparate emerging markets approach human resources and leadership development depends heavily on their respective growth engines. Countries such as India and Singapore that i... Read more »

Leading in a High Velocity World

By Steven J. Spear

Mar 2nd 2010

The movement of people, products, ideas, information today shows no sign of losing velocity but only of speeding up even further. Steven J. Spear, senior lecturer, MIT, elaborates on how market leaders can outdistance the competitionProducts, people and infor-mation move with incred-ible fluidity and velocity. This fundamentally affects how leaders have to manage the organizations for which they are responsible. The imperative once may have been to gather and hold assets when things were more ... Read more »