Since your marketplace depends not only on your products, but also on the caliber of the people who develop, manufacture and sell them, it doesn't make sense to watch strong candidates take jobs with the competition. As the SRA Update begins its sixth year of publication, this special commemorative edition reprises some of the ideas and insights about employment that we have shared with Sanford Rose Associates clients over the past five years. The job market is the tightest it has been in over three decades, and our clients are increasingly finding themselves in bidding contests to hire new employees and to retain the ones they have. This in turn is wreaking havoc with employment budgets. It may be too late to eliminate the information overload that afflicts most workplaces, but there are ways to keep hiring from becoming one of its victims.
Individuals are, by definition, individual.
By the start of the 21st century, many expect to see the same kind of managerial shortage that accompanied the economic boom of the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In fact, a recent survey of executive search firms throughout the U.S. revealed leadership to be the most sought-after trait this year among senior executives, for the first time in the history of the annual survey. You've shrunk the organization until it's reached fighting trim, with the workforce lean and mean. The downsizing days are over, but something seems to be the matter. Unbeknownst to you, your best workers are laying plans to leave.