

How to make your graduates happier. What the data says you should do.
We are approaching the start of another graduate season with 1000's about to start and teams starting to worry about what they need to do...
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Which cognitive biases impact poor talent decisions the most?
Talent is like advertising, everyone has an opinion and are not afraid to express it. What makes talent even more challenging is that...
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Why the Pepsi challenge is the best route to being a woman CEO and other differences between the US
In our latest look at career paths to the top we compare the success of women CEOs in the UK and the USA running Fortune 500 and FTSE 350...
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Where are the architects in HR?
We normally think of architects from the world of construction. Less well known, but as important is the newer role of an architect in...
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Why “creating options” is good and “keeping options open” is bad
A common issue we come across working with people around their career choices is the urge to “keep options open”. “Keeping options open”...
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Understanding progression - the one number you need to grasp.
For a long time, we have had an instinct that even small changes in the growth rate of a business’ headcount have an out-sized impact on...
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Why talent decisions go bad
Bad talent decisions happen for one of two reasons You’re in a hurry and don’t have time to get the right data and insights The...
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5 warning signs a graduate scheme is set up to fail
There are many different grad schemes and many different ways to make them work. Our experience is that there are underpinning building...
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5 important lessons Talent Managers must learn to be Agile
Agile is the hot word in corporate life. Everyone is looking to be more Agile, have Agile people and we even come across "Agile" as a...
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FTSE 100 CEO's career paths in 2013
Our original analysis of CEO career paths in 2013. Insights of note were 19% of CEOs were at the organisations they started at The most...
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