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Articles by Ira Wolfe
Innovative Capacity: A Key To Competitive Advantage
Management today, and into the unforeseeable future, must be able to complete a lot of important work in a short time under harrowing conditions, on the basis of only a few hunches and a lot of instinct, none of them precise.Leadership plays a vital role in navigating this permanent whitewater.
The United States is in the middle of a talent crisis. For those skeptics who feel all the commotion about worker shortages is mostly hype, essentially given the deluge of layoffs resulting from the recent financial crisis, there is just too much wind in the Perfect Labor Storm sails to ignore what is happening. The numbers speak for themselves.
Make Good Sense Of A Fickle Economy: Select The Right People
We live in a world of great risk and great possibilities. Every business is in a race against time, influenced by new competitors, new technologies, and demanding, if not fickle and impatient consumers. In a world of increasing complexity and an avalanche of information, selecting and retaining the right people is more important than ever.
Nine Personality Traits That Shape Innovation
Kaleidoscopic thinking is what differentiates idea generators from successful innovators. Once management bets its future on innovation, creating an innovation-driven culture is a must. This starts with identifying who the people are capable of kaleidoscopic thinking. We have identified nine personality traits that shape the innovative mind-set.
Managers make assumptions every day when they hire employees. They observe a candidate during the interview or on the job and make assumptions about his potential based on how he looks and what he claims he can do. But too many times, after the candidate is hired and on the payroll, the manager turns the "key" and all they hear is "click, click, click". They wonder - did I hire a lemon?
Leadership Lessons Learned From Tim Russert
As I began to watch and listen to the stories about Russert be recounted during the televised day-long tributes and remembrances, I realized that Russert exemplified the virtues of a great leader. Nearly everyone, from politicians, colleagues, and even his competitors, lauded Russert's prowess as a journalist and as an interviewer.
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, 74 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds did not know that Condolezza Rice was the U.S. Secretary of State. Six times more of these young adults were more likely to identify the latest winner of American Idol than the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Could our youngest generation be so clueless?
Gen Y: Will Employers Ever Learn To Play Their Game?
Young people are gathering en masse on line to collaborate. Hanging out with their friends down the street has been replaced by online gaming and social networking. It's like they closed the bedroom door but instead of one best friend inside they now invite thousands of friends in. And now they are entering the workforce in mass, creating both opportunities and headaches for employers.
Stop the brain drain. To begin to capture and transfer knowledge in your organization, where do you start? I offer the following steps.