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		<title>Five Reasons to Focus on Recruiting in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are entering the worst recession in more than 30 years, reading about layoffs, downsizing, and restructuring in almost every industry.   So why would I start our 2009 research with a discussion about the need to focus on recruiting?   Well, contrary to what many may believe, even in times of job reductions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=292&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Softscape Settles SuccessFactors Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Softscape settled the lawsuit filed by SuccessFactors in March of 2008.   This lawsuit, which we wrote about in a prior blog post, revolved around a contentious sales presentation which was developed by Softscape and leaked into the public domain.   In the final settlement Softscape agreed that the presentation in question had some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=287&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Talent Management:  Enter People Management</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/exit-talent-management-enter-people-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Talent Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business and HR leaders have been focused on integrated talent management for the last three years now, and it is clear that talent management concepts, strategy, and solutions have started to transform HR.  Most HR organizations today now have an owner of &#8220;talent management&#8221; and this person is pulling together formerly silo&#8217;d HR processes like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=266&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life or Death:  Building a Corporate Learning Culture</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/life-or-death-defining-and-building-a-learning-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witness the number of companies undergoing a wrenching transformation (read &#8220;potential death&#8221;) in today&#8217;s economy: the US Auto industry (GM, Ford, Chrysler) , the US Newspaper industry (LA Times, NY Times), and many elements of the financial services industry. A recent global survey of 1100 business leaders by Boston Consulting Group found that one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=117&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Yahoo:  Enduring Organizations Manage Executive Succession</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/enduring-organizations-manage-executive-succession-lessons-from-yahoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we witnessed another vivid lesson in the value of executive succession: Jerry Yang steps down as the CEO of Yahoo!. Yang replaced Terry Semel, who spent years trying to build Yahoo! into a media company, only to see it lose market share to the more innovative, technology savvy Google. Yang presided over an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=241&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear:  Does your organization have the Courage to invest in tough times?</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/fear-does-your-organization-have-the-courage-to-invest-in-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enterprise Learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t pick up a newspaper these days without reading about more business downturns, layoffs, and lowered expectations for retail sales, automobiles, consumer products, housing, and financial services.  Lots of business leaders are making tough decisions right now, and I also know a lot of our HR and L&#38;D readers are worried about their jobs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=225&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the &#8220;Talent Management&#8221; Market going?</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/where-is-the-talent-management-market-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the US economy lost 240,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rises to 6.5%, one of the questions I know many people ask is the direction of the &#8220;talent management&#8221; marketplace.  Let me give you our thoughts on the trends taking place. First, the urgency of &#8220;talent management&#8221; in corporate HR organizations has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=221&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restructuring HR:  Where are we going</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/restructuring-hr-where-are-we-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last year many of our research members and clients have come to us for help in restructuring their HR or Learning &#38; Development organizations.  There have been three major forces at play here. 1.  Reducing costs:  In nearly every industry organizations are going through restructuring, mergers, or other cost-cutting efforts.  The HR department [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=211&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Talent:  Where the US Labor Market is Going</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/corporate-talent-where-the-us-labor-market-is-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the important things senior business and HR leaders must consider is the availability of labor &#8211; that is not just &#8220;people&#8221; but &#8220;the right people.&#8221;  Right now, with a 6.1% unemployment rate, the US labor market has undergone some major changes&#8230;. and such changes in the availability of work directly affect the skills [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=200&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Social Software:  A New Category</title>
		<link>http://bersin.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/enterprise-social-software-a-new-category/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Bersin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we introduced some important and groundbreaking research on a new, important category of enterprise software:  the market for corporate Social Software platforms.   Traditionally our research has focused on identifying the strategies, processes, and systems which help corporate HR and L&#38;D drive effectiveness and business value.  But as we continued to study the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bersin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=173732&amp;post=196&amp;subd=bersin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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