How Companies Develop Great Leaders

At first glance, Zappos.com, the online retailer, appears to have little in common with General Electric (GE), the multinational conglomerate. Hit hard by the recession, GE is in the throes of scaling down its financial services subsidiary, GE Capital, by an estimated 40%. Zappos, on the other hand, is tapping into changing consumer habits and ramping up for 30% growth over the next 12 months...

From the blog: Warning: Your competitors are head hunting your best performers NOW!

By Mark Holden

It comes as no surprise that our best and most productive employees are the ones that get approached by competitors and head hunters. So if the success of our businesses is determined by the performance of our HiPo’s why does it take one, or more, of them resigning to start thinking about what we should do to retain them?