Not only are individual companies and industries battling for talent, but countries are, too. In the global competition for top talent, emigration of highly skilled workers —brain drain — can result in an especially pernicious drag on the source nations’ talent pools. Many countries are susceptible to flights of talent and experience its deleterious effects.

Much has been written about boards and diversity, especially diversity that is readily perceptible: gender or race, for example. We ourselves have explored gender diversity, in our global surveys of corporate directors in scores of interviews with board members across the globe.

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. But attaining one is far from easy. No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats.

People will continue to debate Procter & Gamble's move to replace CEO Bob McDonald with his immediate predecessor A.G. Lafley, but for us the most compelling and determinative part of this story lies with the board.

I found myself in a debate with someone about the use of electronic data collection to preserve the anonymity of directors evaluating the board’s or each other’s performance. There are three main issues that make me uncomfortable with the idea of directors giving anonymous feedback.

I’ve been waiting for the results from a study that Professor Mak Yuen Teen, Associate Professor at NUS Business School, and I have been undertaking. We thought it would produce some interesting insights to share with the HR profession – and it did!

For a Christmas gift, I was given a book of English proverbs and sayings. When I read it, I was struck by how many of the sayings found in the book related to the work I do. I soon realized that most of this wisdom originally came from my grandmother.

WordPress.com is the 15th most trafficked website in the world. It is run by Automattic Inc, a company that is 100% distributed. That means everyone works from home, or more precisely, from wherever in the world they wish.

A hidden source of friction is slowing your company down. Your workers are complicit in it. So is your management. And it’s driving everybody nuts.

For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. The band put out new albums regularly and experimented in video games, art, and video content, among other things. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music had changed the business dramatically. So they began to prepare for their next decade.