Rock Star Employees

Many companies and business are going thru massive changes and restructuring to ensure that they survive into the future. This will of course involve identifying and retaining the best talent that is available and moulding them to lead the respective parts of the business. This is no easy task as while there are real talents, there are also massive number of pretenders. Below is an interesting article on The 5 Traits of High-Potential Employees.

Who will be ready to run your company when you can’t be everywhere anymore? Here’s how to pick your next generation of leaders.

1. They know the business. Your high-potential employees are the ones who have true expertise and keep learning. Their knowledge may be technical or it may be institutional, but it’s invaluable for the organization. More important, they understand how their activities, their sector, and their realm of knowledge is related to the company’s goals.

2. Others respect them. Your staff members, not just you, also have to appreciate how much your high-potentials know. It’s not enough that your top people know their stuff. Everyone else has to know they know it.

3. They are ambitious. High-potential employees aren’t just career-minded; they’re ambitious in a focused way. The best way to get a sense of this is to evaluate their commitment to career progression. Look for signs that they long to accumulate new responsibilities, new successes, additional knowledge, and, for better or worse, additional recognition.

4. They work well with others. Though your leaders need to be driven, they also must be able to form partnerships with others besides you. This attitude goes beyond amiability; it’s a pragmatic, tactical skill that allows them to make better, more informed decisions. Lone rangers may be creative and ambitious, but they make lousy leaders.

5. They have guts. Your next generation of leaders must understand that no matter how much research they do, no matter how many cost-benefit analyses they conduct, no matter how many market surveys they complete, they will always be deciding under conditions of uncertainty. The information at hand will always be less than the information you wish you had. Leaders need to have the courage to take risks.

Though you don’t want your next generation of leaders to be clones of you, you do want them to have the traits that drove you to build a growing company. You want them to know their stuff. You want them to have a good reputation on your team. You want them to be driven but able to give and accept help. Finally, you want them to have the courage to make tough decisions, even if there’s a chance they’ll fail. Because that’s how entrepreneurship works.

Source : Inc

World Leaders on YouTube

Here’s something very cool, you can now ask a world leader a question via World View by YouTube. The channel will feature a certain leader and you have the opportunity to ask a question or vote for a question that you think should be asked.

Very cool! Log on and ask your burning questions. How the world is bringing us closer to those who are willing to open up. Have you asked your question yet?

Check it Out!

The Climate Scoreboard

Here is a nice tool that tells us what the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen could mean to us. Have a look at what kind of temperature hike we could see in 3 different scenario’s. Watch the video as for more insight into the situation we are in.

Whats Important?

Politickler ran a one day poll asking its readers what the most important value a politician should have.

The responces : 88% said -The will to help people

06% said – Education Background

03% said – Experience

03% said – Street Smart

Clear reflection of current times isnt it?! People have not been getting the basic help they need from the very people that they have voted into power so they demand the will to help. Imagine if in a ideal world where the people get the basic, then the requirement will shift too maybe experience so they make the right decisions, education to have the expertise in certain areas or simple street smart to be able to handle real life situations.

The signs are on the streets, i think that more should open their eyes and ears and listen and look carefully before they start talking..