What Is Talent, and How Do We Measure It?
Managers ask us to bring them the best talent we can find. We say that quality of hire is our most important metric and that it is tied directly to the kind of talent we can attract. Yet while we bandy about the term "talent," we have no real definition of it.

What is Your Philosophy about Employees? 10 tough questions to answer
Often, words such as "friendly," "hard-nosed," "fast-paced," "modest," "aggressive," and "sophisticated" are used when describing how an organization appears to the outside world. Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson's airline, is considered avant-garde and a bit offbeat, while United Airlines is thought of as traditional, mainstream, and reflective of the business-oriented folks to whom it caters.

Top Ten Ways to Retain Your Great Employees
Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of your business. Managers readily agree that retaining your best employees ensures customer satisfaction, product sales, satisfied coworkers and reporting staff, effective succession planning and deeply imbedded organizational knowledge and learning. If managers can cite these facts so well, why do they behave in ways that so frequently encourage great employees to quit their jobs?