Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

Neuroscience, can tell us about how people learn and change behaviour. Key elements are: 

good mood, good sleep and mild stress, or flow. This should be the principles against which all pogrammes are designed for greater learning and retention.

The science also shows that to change people need to create...

Many companies exercise talent management programs of high expectations, but actually end up in undermining strategic adaptability: The programs are often run for management talent rather than for talent as such.

The point here is that we unconsciously value hierarchies so strongly that even a good cause to empower people...

This is really one for the public sector.  Long-winded, multi-layered grievances can go on for years, focus resources and attention inwards instead of outwards on customers.  Public Sector needs to learn from the private sector that a grievance is about 2 steps, your boss and your boss's boss and that's...

There is a lot of energy spent on CVs. Too much. To be honest, it's not even necessary - at all.

Applicants wordsmith and position; enterprises collect, prioritize, and validate. Yet I'd argue, by and large, it's wasted time and, worse, misses the point. 

Why?

• You don't want to hire someone who is
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