Digital disruption is shaking things up, there’s no doubt about it. The shift in the way things are done brings opportunity, innovation and a good dose of fear. With tasks becoming automated and basic functions being carried out by machines, there is a feeling that workers are about to lose their...

  Artificial Intelligence working its way into all verticals, automation is the new normal and humans are happy to interface with a virtual assistant, if it can get them the answers they need, faster.   While some employers are frozen at the thought of the demise of work as we know it, others have...

Cornerstone recently announced Cornerstone Edge, a new cloud computing architecture and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that provides clients, partners and third-party developers with easy-to-use new tools and services to quickly create and deploy new and existing applications within the...

What's one surefire way to get an innovative and exciting new project sidelined? In one word: bureaucracy. Too much managerial overhead can slow down project management and discourage creativity. To combat this, companies like tech company GitHub, gaming software developer Valve and W.L....

Google has gained a reputation for asking open-ended, seemingly nonsensical interview questions (“How many cows are in Canada?”) that have no correct answer. Why? They want to watch a candidate work his or her way through a problem.

Many CEOs swear by similarly zany, out-of-...

When Steve Ballmer announced his retirement from Microsoft last fall, the former CEO told the Wall Street Journal, “the best way for Microsoft to enter a new era is a new leader who will accelerate change.” 

While trust and confidence were key traits for leaders of...

When it comes to questions about benefits, payroll and health insurance, most employees defer to the HR department, and an increasing number of them are calling an 800 number for answers.

The outsourced HR industry has grown to an estimated $165 billion business. Companies are...

Great managers understand what makes teams function and they leverage this knowledge to drive performance and execution. They are always investing in the development of their employees, individually and collectively. To become talent managers and leaders, working to understand motivation is...

It wasn’t that long ago, perhaps just a couple of years back, that the talent management software buyer was buried under an avalanche of choice.  There were dozens of vendors to choose from – small and big companies offering bits and pieces of technology to drive learning...

It's back to business at colleges across the country — but not for the nation's most recent graduates. More than 40 percent of them are unemployed and many are loaded with student debt. Small wonder, then, that some question whether a college education is really worth the time and...