Many of the senior HR people we know are still struggling to get traction with senior managers on HR initiatives, despite clear evidence that HR now firmly has a seat at the table.
For example, we are currently carrying out research into talent strategy with a number of organisations. You can read more about how to join Read more →
Regular readers of the Orion blogs will know I am a bit of a Steve Jobs fan. 
I had the opportunity a week or so ago to debate the key trends in resourcing and talent acquisition with Steve Leach, one of the exec team at Alexander Mann Solutions (the major recruitment process outsourcing business, RPO). We were “head-to-head” in a feature for Outsource Magazine. We really focused on trends in resourcing, for example; how the function is responding to the world of social recruiting, how the role of the recruiter is changing and the changing role of line managers in building the employer brand profile. 
When their superpowers no longer match the profile of what is needed for the future strategy. We’ve all seen it with hindsight, brilliance in one phase of the business can be disastrous for a different phase. It’s easy to miss, but what if you had a way to spot the danger before the damage is done? Let me tell you a story that illustrates what I mean…, 
So says Austin Kleon in his new book Steal like an Artist. See 
I always had a particular fondness for that moment in Star Trek when the Enterprise arrived at an uncharted planet and Jim Kirk stood proudly on the bridge (chin out stomach in) before giving the order to “Hail them”. Hail them? An entire planet? How was that supposed to work? 
Knowledge is power….but it’s all about how you use it