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Dr. Murphy's newest management book was released this spring - Talent IQ published by Adams Media.
Talent is a company's most valuable - and scarcest - resource. Today, more than ever, the fate of an organization depends on its ability to recruit, retain, and, when necessary, replace talent. Employees who excel can move a company to greatness. Those whose problematic behavior rivals their potential can undermine an organization. By the same token, the way talent is managed can determine the success or failure of one's own career.
Talent IQ teaches you how to make the most of your own team's talent - from junior support staff to C level executives. Based on an extensive ten year study of best practices among 100,000+ Talent Leaders in virtually every type of organizational setting, Talent IQ identifies the concepts, skills, and tools you need to manage effectively.
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TALENT-ON-THE-BUBBLE
E. C. Murphy
One of the great lessons from Talent IQ is that the performance of talent gone awry is very seriously under-addressed in organizational life. Called talent-on-the-bubble, a pattern of behavior was identified that can take any organization and its leadership team down if left untended. Talent-on-the-bubble can make a mockery of organizational values, sap creative energy and drive highly talented top performers out. To the extent that positive energies from high achievers create a magnet of hope and achievement, talent-on-the-bubble constitutes an anchor of negativism, irresponsibility and contempt.
While leaders want to get to the positive side of the performance equation, to the extent they avoid the responsibility to address the talent-on-the-bubble challenge, they drop an anchor on progress and an evidentiary path of their own on-the-bubble behavior. Here's what it is and how to correct it.
On-the-bubble behavior is the mirror opposite of achievement behavior. Where achievement is a process of moving up the ladder of responsibility for one's behavior, moving from achievement to partnership, commitment, optimism and responsibility, on-the-bubble behavior moves down a treacherous slope from fence-sitting to avoidance, hostility, contempt and irresponsibility.
And, where achievement is expressed through the positive paths of service, innovation and management, on-the-bubble behavior plants IED's of explosive treachery. Instead of engagement, empathy, generosity and beneficence, guidance and responsibility in service, the on-the-bubble person plays the procrastinator, martyr, critical gossip, manipulator and backstabber. Played down this path, the on-the-bubble person systematically destabilizes, leaving a path of chaos in their wake.
And, where the innovator moves up the ladder from seeker to knowledge leader, empowerer, discoverer, and break-through thinker, the on-the-bubble human sink hole moves from narcissist to deer-in-the-headlights, to black hole, fetalist and suicide, sucking the creative energy out of the organization in an ultimately futile act of personal sabotage.
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Emmett C. Murphy, PhD, Senior Partner & Chairman |
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Prior to co-founding EC Murphy Walsh, Dr.
Murphy was Chairman and CEO of E. C. Murphy,
VHA, LLC, the management consulting
subsidiary of VHA, Inc., the world's largest
business services and healthcare system. He
has served as faculty and consultant for the
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard School
of Medicine, MIT's Sloan School of
Management, Booz Allen Hamilton, and London
University.
He serves clients in business, government,
and public service including IBM, Chase
Manhattan, Hewlett-Packard, and the
Department of Defense. His books and research
have been featured in USA Today, and
The New York Times and he has appeared
on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NPR. He holds a PhD in
organizational psychology with postdoctoral
studies in organizational development and
clinical counseling.
Read more about Emmett....
Grant B. Walsh, MBA, C. Dir., Managing Partner & CEO
Grant Walsh is an internationally recognized executive leader of service, healthcare, and health-related organizations. He has a proven track record in public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit complex organizations.
Grant and Emmett, having worked together intermittently for many years, teamed up two years ago creating a powerhouse of expertise. Together their combined academia and experience bring unparalleled skills to their clients. Their Self-Improving System along with their other tools can revolutionize any workplace.
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