Human Resources: HR.com Thought Leaders for November 1, 2007

Thought Leaders for November 1, 2007

Welcome to Thought Leaders for November 1, 2007

Each week this newsletter features the most inspiring, educational and powerful stories from some of the world's greatest business leaders. Each five-minute video will give you the courage, energy and know-how to accomplish your tasks and motivate your team to do the same.

This week's free video is from our partner Fifty Lessons. Be sure to check out what today's thought leaders have to teach us about managing people, our careers and our lives.

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Implementing A Performance
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Performance management is key in organizations that wish to assess individuals' performance and reward them appropriately. To do this successfully an organization needs to have a system that manages performance: not just for reward purposes but also to help establish what people should do to grow, and the skills they will require to achieve this.

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You Can’t Predict The Future But You Can Plan For It	Finding The Flowers Amongst The Weeds	Setting Expectations Is A Key Skill

Erroll Davis Jnr Former Chairman Alliant Energy Corporation	Professor Lynda Gratton Professor of Management Practise London Business School	Aart de Geus Former Chief Operating Officer Synopsys

No one can predict the future, but a good leader can take an educated guess as to how the market might change in the coming years. Such preparation can help to provide a strategic positioning for an organization, ensuring it is as prepared as possible for certain scenarios.	Leaders must focus on the few things that will really make a difference to their organization. Lynda Gratton encourages leaders to make sure their priorities are landmark priorities that are tightly aligned to their objectives and then find ways to filter these ideas down, as they are hugely important to the future of the company.	Aart de Geus discusses the delicate balance between setting expectations high enough but not too high. The key is in listening to what the customer needs, meeting or exceeding reasonable expectations, and being clear about goals that cannot be actualized.

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			Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership Reengineering Management is an extension of the author´s previous book, Reengineering the Corporation. It attempts to instruct the reader how to manage reengineered work by harnessing the power of the changes sweeping the business world, create business opportunity, and compete successfully. The job of management is twofold: to reexamine and restate the business purpose; and to use this restatement to fully mobilize the company for transformation. The author sends the message that change is not just about new concepts, but about action-long term action on all fronts, and all at once.

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Managing Global Alliances: Key Steps for Successful Collaboration

Working Globe Smart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders

The Second Coming of the Woolly Mammoth: An Entrepreneur's Bible

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