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So many books are focused on being more intelligent, but very few are focusing on how we can be more intelligent, collectively.  Any leader of an organization should care about how can we, simultaneously as an organization, make better decisions.

I recently spoke with a leader of a large organization about the push towards diversity in most organizations, and its value.  While traditional gender, race, and age diversity come to mind, it is becoming increasingly important to consider cognitive diversity.  

20 years ago, when Jeff Bezos was writing his shareholder letter, on page 3 he explained the 3 driving questions they ask themselves when they are hiring.

This is what California Governor, Jerry Brown, believes as law AB 2770 goes into effect.

We read this great article and it applies to talent management and recruiting/Talent Acquisition as any other industry.

AI is the new buzzword. Many companies are supposedly using AI, but are they really?

About 15 years ago, when I was still at the ATS Taleo (now part of Oracle), we came up with a vision: any workforce need should come through one platform.

I was recently forwarded a video about the assessment process at Heineken.

While the video is very funny it raises a serious question.

I recently spoke with a leader of Talent Acquisition that changed the way they are servicing their divisions. Instead of being organized to service each division individually they organized their staff to support their internal needs according to the qualification of the candidates.

An interesting report mentioned the behavior that most hiring managers will Google their candidates. They will look for applicant's questionable statements or behaviors (39%), as well as engagement in professional networks (27%) and political views (19%). Candidates are well aware of this.

I recently co-presented with Trevor Higgs, the Director of Candidate Experience at Johnson & Johnson, at an Onconference event, and was delighted to understand how they use the concept of Net Promoter Score (or NPS) for candidate experience.