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One of most important issues for organisations is ensuring they have the right people with the right skills in place to do what needs to be done.  And businesses will be facing a timebomb unless they recruit more young people.

As every year, there are mixed views about Sir Alan's new Apprentice.

There are real disadvantages of focusing on your weaknesses.  Here's why...

Another piece of research by McKinsey demonstrates a gap between perceptions of HR and line managers about talent.

As always, the biggest gaps say the most. In this survey HR is perceived not to have the capability to develop talent strategies aligned with business objectives. I think this is a real indictment of HR.

On 23 September, The Times published the list of Best Councils to Work for 2008.

From this it would seem that small is beautiful. Of the top 25 only 3 have more than 1,000 employees and 18 have less than 500 employees. Given that local government is one of the largest employers in England, with over 1.4 million employees, the number of employees working for ALL the councils on the list adds up to the workforce of one county council.

Want to start the year as you mean to go on? Then focus more of your time on your strengths.  You will enjoy what you do and be more productive.