competence

Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy

Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…

The dirty little secret: skill shortages

“Having hundreds of well-trained engineers means little if the technology those engineers know best is being phased out…

A Human Energy Crisis?

A few days ago I was asked an interesting question by a reporter from a well-respected business journal: In this buyer’s market for talent, are companies asking…