Attention CEOs: Is 2015 the year you acknowledge that HR is actually your job? (Because everything starts with your people.)

January 13th, 2015

Happy 2015! Another year older and—hopefully—another year wiser in a most critical area: Your People. We at TPO hope that this wisdom takes a very specific form in the coming months and years:

CEOs, COOs, Business Owners and Executive Directors must take a more direct and presumptive ownership approach over their Talent assets.

Because, to […]

TPO@20!  Interview with Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth US:  Leading a Highly Emotionally Intelligent Organization

December 10th, 2014

This interview is part of a yearlong retrospective blog series commemorating TPO@20!—TPO’s 20th Birthday. These conversations with TPO partners, clients and executives focus on what has and hasn’t changed in “how we work” over the last two decades—and what we can learn for the next 20 years. This interview is with Erich Pica, President of […]

Interview with Chris Bergin, President and Publisher of Tax Analysts: The Increased Velocity of News and HR as an Integral Part of All Business Decisions

October 15th, 2014

This interview is part of a yearlong retrospective blog series commemorating TPO@20!—TPO’s 20th Birthday. These conversations with TPO partners, clients and executives focus on what has and hasn’t changed in “how we work” over the last two decades—and what we can learn for the next 20 years. This interview is with […]

Enlightened Leaders Believe “Every Business Decision is an HR Decision”

September 24th, 2014

A number of times in my discussions with TPO clients—CEOs, Presidents, CFOs and Executive Directors of small- and mid-size organizations—they’ve said something along the lines of the headline above: “Every Business Decision is an HR Decision.”

They’ve learned, in some cases by trial and error over many years, that you should not simply invite an HR […]