The Shadow Talent System: A Hidden Force Influencing Talent Development
"The shadow banking system filled a gap in the financial intermediation process that the traditional banking system couldn't fully address." - Paul McCulley I was a [...]
The Confidence Trap of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Ever noticed how the loudest voice in the room often gets ahead, even if it’s not the most capable one? Meanwhile, true experts stay quiet, doubting [...]
Sustainable Organizational Advantage, RBV and Career Capital
Sustainable Organizational Advantage: why certain firms outshine their competitors in the same industry? A Look at RBV and Career Capital I was recently reading "Chasing Stars: [...]
Lessons From The Masters Golf 2024
Lessons From The Masters Golf 2024: Teeing Up Career Capital Strategies The Masters golf Tournament is one of the four major championships in professional golf, held annually at the Augusta National Golf Club in [...]
Sunk Cost Fallacy in Careers
Sunk Cost Fallacy in Careers Know when to hold them, know when to fold them! I recently watched an interview with poker player Anne Duke speaking [...]
How to escape Experience Trap in workplace?
How can we escape the "experience trap" in the workplace? How to promote the culture of ongoing adaptability and learning. One of the common plagues that we face in the workplace learning is the concept [...]
Navigating Career Fog: Lessons from Florence Chadwick’s Swim
Navigating Career Fog: Lessons from Florence Chadwick's Swim On July 4, 1952, Florence Chadwick attempted to swim 33 kilometers between Catalina Island and the California coastline. After 15 hours and 55 minutes and with only a half a kilometer to go, she felt that she couldn't [...]
Formula of success: performance is not everything!
On a recent flight, I caught an interesting documentary: the Science of Success, a fantastic look at how we can predict the likelihood of success. I picked up a book from a professor highlighted in [...]
Organizational Network Analysis: The SQUARE and the TOWER
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Organizational Network Analysis through the lens of historical events Have you ever wondered how power and influence are distributed among a group [...]
Default Mindset – Part II : Developing Impactful Training to Motivate the Elephant
Developing Impactful Training to Motivate the Elephant “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung, the famed Swiss psychiatrist. Earlier we discussed how [...]
Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus I recently got a book that caught my attention from the title alone! Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. Johann starts off with his own journey about his attempt to disconnect from technology while [...]
Training The Default Mindset
Training The Default Mindset Why do we do the things that we do... even when we “know” we should do something differently. It is as someone else is making the decisions for us. This is [...]
Thoughts on 2022 HR Summit in KSA
Thoughts on 2022 HR Summit in KSA Last week for the first time I visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia! It was to attend a HR conference, meet some clients and prospects. The first take for me [...]
Toes in the sand book in the hands!
Toes in the sand book in the hands! Summer is already here! I hope you all find a bit of time to relax and take some sunbath. In my previous roles, I always tried to [...]
A look toward the past
A look toward the past… one company’s effort to develop the whole individual. As we all are working to prepare ourselves for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, I thought it would be interesting to have a [...]
Personal Mastery
Personal Mastery: What is your vision of your future portfolio of skills? Development is often an individual pursuit. However, most of the development opportunities individuals have, been tied to an organization’s objective. How do we [...]
We are Talking About Practice
We are Talking About Practice When considering what to title this post, I quote from the basketball star Allen Iverson during his 2002 press conference when asked about missing a practice. He went on to [...]
Group Coaching
Group Coaching The term coaching brings a lot of different images to the front of mind. For me, the first image is that of a sports coach on the sidelines of a field observing the [...]
Career Capital Theory : Unleashing your staff’s potential
How can organizations maximize the potential of their top talents? Career Capital Theory If you read many of the business biography’s, they often tell their story with a series of events they find insightful [...]
