Top 5 Roadblocks to Succession Planning

Clayton J.C Tan | July 28, 2010

I’ve seen so many organizations with succession planning in place (some of which even have a dedicated person to manage succession planning).  While CEO succession is something that have been talked about for some time, cascadding succession planning initiatives to other levels are somewhat new to many organizations.  Though it works theoretically, many are still [...]

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World Cup’s Lesson on Managing People Issues

Clayton J.C Tan | June 9, 2010

While world cup is around the corner, much have been talked about the final 23 selected by each country, the havoc created by injuries and team coach’s changes of plans and strategy leading towards the world cup.  I was looking at the news and the players selected for World Cup this year as compared to [...]

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Why not educate Gen-Y instead?

Clayton J.C Tan | February 12, 2010

I was recently in a good debate and discussions on Linked-In about Gen-Y - the similarities and differences accros culture and how to deal with them.  It triggered me to think about how to bridge the gap between the different generations.
Sometimes I do keep wondering why we often see programs, articles, workshops focusing on “how [...]

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What’s the role of a leader?

Clayton J.C Tan | February 7, 2010

“I may not be best at anything or the most knowledgeable in organizing projects, but I believe the role of the leader is not to do the work hands-on but to provide directions, bring the team together and set good visions” - The phrase was not said in as many words but that was the [...]

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Managerial KPIs … anyone?

Clayton J.C Tan | June 26, 2009

While it is easy implementing operations, sales or other measurable business targets related KPIs are fairly straightforward, there have been much arguements about KPIs for support functions which do not always have a qualtifiable target (I.e - How do we measure the success of a marketing campaign?  How about Effectiveness of Training?).  These may be [...]

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