Leadership
The Best Candidate Already Worked Here Once
A returning employee arrives with a known record, an existing network and no ramp. The obstacles are almost entirely procedural, and most of them are self-imposed.
Retention
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The First Ninety Days Decide the Next Three Years
Companies spend heavily to attract people and hand them a laptop and a login. The departures that follow eighteen months later were mostly determined in the first three weeks.
Leadership
Companies Are Quietly Putting a Number on How Many People One Manager Can Have
The flattening that removed a layer of management left survivors with teams of fifteen and twenty. Organisations are now setting explicit spans, and discovering the number they can defend is smaller than the one they have.
Leadership
Internal Mobility Turns Out to Be the Cheapest Recruiting Channel
Companies spend heavily to source candidates externally while making internal movement quietly difficult. The organizations fixing the second are finding they need less of the first.