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	<itunes:summary>Host Art Petty interviews leaders, leadership authors, management thinkers and other professionals about creating high performance teams and organizations and developing effective leaders at all levels, during this weekly program. The goal is to share practical, powerful ideas to help listeners improve their performance and the performance of their teams and organizations.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine Podcast #8: Francie Dalton on the Impending Talent Shortage</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/09/25/leadership-caffeine-podcast-8-francie-dalton-on-the-impending-talent-shortage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francie Dalton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talent Shortage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's been awhile since we've heard much about impending shortages of talent. My recent conversation with Francie Dalton, President and Founder of Dalton Alliances, Inc., served to remind us all once again, that talent is always an issue. And by the way, Francie makes an interesting case that the recently forgotten issue of talent shortages is a very real issue about to bite us where it hurts...in the bottom line.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/09/25/leadership-caffeine-podcast-8-francie-dalton-on-the-impending-talent-shortage/' addthis:title='Leadership Caffeine Podcast #8: Francie Dalton on the Impending Talent Shortage ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>It's been awhile since we've heard much about impending shortages of talent. My recent conversation with Francie Dalton, President and Founder of Dalton Alliances, Inc., served to remind us all once again, that talent is always an issue. And by the [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>It's been awhile since we've heard much about impending shortages of talent. My recent conversation with Francie Dalton, President and Founder of Dalton Alliances, Inc., served to remind us all once again, that talent is always an issue. And by the way, Francie makes an interesting case that the recently forgotten issue of talent shortages is a very real issue about to bite us where it hurts...in the bottom line.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Rethinking Talent, Leadership and the Organization</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/04/21/rethinking-talent-leadership-and-the-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2010/04/21/rethinking-talent-leadership-and-the-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future of the Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Future of Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone involved in leadership and responsible for the development of leaders should read the recent BusinessWeek article, “Can GE Still Manage?” The article offers a fascinating look into GE’s traditional leadership and high-potential development practices, and raises an interesting question of whether these practices still hunt in a very different world than when they were conceived.  While I'm not qualified to critique GE’s approach, the article certainly begs all of us to be thinking about or rethinking everything that we take for granted in how we find and cultivate talent and how we deploy our resources.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/04/21/rethinking-talent-leadership-and-the-organization/' addthis:title='Rethinking Talent, Leadership and the Organization ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Three C&#8217;s and One D of Great Hiring According to Small Business Owners</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/02/03/the-three-cs-and-one-d-of-great-hiring-according-to-small-business-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2010/02/03/the-three-cs-and-one-d-of-great-hiring-according-to-small-business-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["To Do" List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hiring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiring Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Find Talent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experienced small business owners and managers understand the critical importance of making great hires.  The right people propel your business and the wrong ones cost you precious time and money.  The wrong hires ring up expensive opportunity costs by making less than optimal decisions, inappropriately leading or misleading your teams and not helping you create value and gain a competitive advantage.  I spoke to a number of owners running visibly successful firms and asked for their insights on hiring talent on their teams.  The roll-up of their advice is as follows...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/02/03/the-three-cs-and-one-d-of-great-hiring-according-to-small-business-owners/' addthis:title='The Three C&#8217;s and One D of Great Hiring According to Small Business Owners ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership 2009 Style-What We Learned</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2009/11/24/leadership-2009-style-what-we-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2009/11/24/leadership-2009-style-what-we-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crisis Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leading Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Complexity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading in Difficult Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lessons Learned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mix one part global economic crisis with ample quantities of uncertainty and ambiguity.  Stir in two-parts ever-changing global competition and a dash of geopolitical instability and you’ll end up with something that looks and feels a lot like the world of today, complete with the mild aftertaste of fear.  You’ll also end up with a remarkable living leadership laboratory, where the best leaders are rediscovering the importance of leadership blocking and tackling while simultaneously developing the new skills and approaches required in this complex environment.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2009/11/24/leadership-2009-style-what-we-learned/' addthis:title='Leadership 2009 Style-What We Learned ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leader, Who&#8217;s Sitting at Your Table?</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2009/11/19/leader-whos-sitting-at-your-table/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2009/11/19/leader-whos-sitting-at-your-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[best practices in leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Surround Yourself with Great People]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Mom is proven right.  You become the company that you keep. Surround yourself with intelligent, aggressive individuals comfortable in professionally articulating their perspectives and taking accountability for both their words and their actions, and you will flourish.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2009/11/19/leader-whos-sitting-at-your-table/' addthis:title='Leader, Who&#8217;s Sitting at Your Table? ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Time to Panic?</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/09/27/is-it-time-to-panic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crisis Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding opportunity in chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stakeholders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a time to adopt a philosophy that seeks to find opportunity in chaos.  It is a time to carefully evaluate your strategies and check your assumptions.  It is also a time to consider making some hard calls on your future.
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		<title>Career Growth and the Product Manager</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/09/26/career-growth-and-the-product-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2008/09/26/career-growth-and-the-product-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diplomat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategic thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[wear my respect on my shirt-sleeve for the many dedicated Product Management professionals that hold down what I believe is one of the most difficult and one of the most critical roles in today’s fast moving technology and B2B organizations.  I firmly believe that these talented and well-rounded business professionals are potentially some of the most valuable assets in an organization’s talent pool.
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		<title>HR Has Yet to Establish Credibility As Weapon in War for Talent</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/08/22/hr-has-yet-to-establish-credibility-as-weapon-in-war-for-talent/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2008/08/22/hr-has-yet-to-establish-credibility-as-weapon-in-war-for-talent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[line management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McKinsey Quarterly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent sharing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While not quick to throw stones as my own functional counterparts (sales and marketing) have plenty of their own challenges, it is time for HR to stand-up and be counted on as a key enabler of strategy. They can start by helping their firm institutionalize talent identification, recruitment, retention and development.
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		<title>Strengthen Your Team By Seeking People Who Believe that They Can Grow</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/08/14/strengthen-your-team-by-seeking-people-who-believe-that-they-can-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carol dweck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look back on your own recent string of hires and promotions, and if your batting average is lower than you would like it to be, consider Ms. Dweck’s advice: “look for both talent and a growth mind-set in prospective hires—people with a passion for learning who thrive on challenge and change.  And remember to open your eyes and look around you for talent in unexpected places.  Your greatest future success stories might be closer than they appear.

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		<title>Capturing Talent and Creating Great Customer Experiences: They Go Together</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/07/18/capturing-talent-and-creating-great-customer-experiences-they-go-together/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2008/07/18/capturing-talent-and-creating-great-customer-experiences-they-go-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no way that an organization that accommodates sloppy interviewing habits is landing and retaining the best and brightest.  As a business leader, you want your customers to constantly be surprised and delighted.  A manager that takes mid-interview smoke breaks and badgers a talented candidate about salary expectations is someone that I want working for my competitor.
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		<title>Teaching a Senior Team To Dance With Leadership Development</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/07/09/teaching-a-senior-team-to-dance-with-leadership-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no silver bullet for creating an effective leadership culture, but there is a straightforward formula: focus, time and discipline.  And of course, practice, practice and more practice.  How well does your senior team dance when it comes to leadership development?
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		<title>Ironically, Mid-Level Managers May Save Your Business</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/07/07/ironically-mid-level-managers-may-save-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since terms like reengineering, right sizing and downsizing became part of the corporate lexicon; midlevel managers have been taking it on the chin.  This once populous class has been synergized and right-sized almost to extinction.  Those that remain often struggle with spans of control as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and limited authority that is constantly challenged from above and below.  I find it just a bit ironic (and appropriate) that this much-abused class of leader may just hold the key to surviving and prospering in tough times.
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		<title>Leadership and the Winning Environment</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/05/15/leadership-and-the-winning-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From selecting and supporting the right people to caring enough to provide the tools, mentoring and constructive feedback, this leader, whether CEO, Shift Supervisor or High School Tennis Coach, is truly responsible for creating an environment that breeds success. Success as we know, tends to breed more success.  It's a wonderful, vicious cycle.

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		<title>Management by Jane: Leading Effectively from the Middle</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/04/08/management-by-jane-leading-effectively-from-the-middle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Jane" is a senior leader exerting broad influence on an organization, while sitting smack in the middle of the organization chart.  She's a testament to the power of maintaining the right attitude on all fronts, and she clearly has learned several of the most valuable lessons of leadership: select great people, deal with them openly and honestly, provide opportunities and challenges and let them do what they do best.
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		<title>Do You Know Why Your Talent Is Walking Out The Door?</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/03/05/do-you-know-why-your-talent-is-walking-out-the-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob is leaving behind the business that he helped start and grow and save and grow and sell and sell again, and no one in BIGCO cares.  Frankly, no one in the upper ranks even knows that he exists.  The dirty little secret: he's just another faceless number on a spreadsheet and his departure will improve the expense to revenue ratio, and solve an annoying compensation problem in this now remote outpost of BIGCO.  Bob is in the prime of his career, an expert and one of the last shreds of the soul of a great business.  Bob is relieved to be moving on, but to BIGCO, it's not even noticeable.  Good for Bob.

There's more.
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		<title>Technical Leaders: It&#8217;s Time to Throw Out the Single-Track System for Developing Talent</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/02/27/technical-leaders-its-time-to-throw-out-the-single-track-system-for-developing-talent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many priceless discussion threads during the interview, focused on the challenges of developing leadership and individual contributor talent in technical organizations.  Specifically, he railed at the "single career-track" approach that in his opinion results in many otherwise great individual contributors pursuing leadership roles for the wrong reasons regardless of their interest or capabilities for leading.  There is wisdom in his perspective.
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		<title>Excitement for the Next Generation of Leaders and Management at the Movies</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/02/15/excitement-for-the-next-generation-of-leaders-and-management-at-the-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great pleasure of serving as a guest lecturer on Leadership yesterday to a class of college seniors (business majors), and I was struck by the remarkably mature perspective and intuitive feel that they have for the subject.  After my opening comments on how you can't possibly learn to be a leader from a book or a class, we launched into a series of discussions and exercises that Wowed me with the clear thinking and great ideas about effective leadership and great leaders, as well as the opposite.  I'm definitely growing more excited about the potential of this generation of early career professionals!
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		<title>Will Software Improve Our Talent Management Performance?</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/02/06/will-software-improve-our-talent-management-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[t's fairly well established in my mind through our firm's research and from working for large and small firms as an employee and as a consultant, that most organizations and most leaders stink at talent development.  I've cited a number of studies and surveys in my various posts that report findings that are in violent agreement with this conclusion.  However, now that there is software to help us manage talent, are our problems over?
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		<title>What Are You Doing All Day If You Are Not Developing Talent?</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2008/02/06/what-are-you-doing-all-day-if-you-are-not-developing-talent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I speak, counsel and write consistently about the critical need for an organization's leaders to institutionalize the process of identifying, developing and retaining talent.  In a recent workshop, less than 20% of the organizations represented indicated that they had any form of succession planning or early talent identification programs in place.  The numbers got worse when we talked about development activities for established associates.

While I suppose that I should be grateful for how miserably organizations perform in the area of talent development—after all, it means a large market for workshops, programs and books, it frankly pains me more than it pleases me.  This isn't that hard or expensive people.  What are you waiting for?
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