Finding the perfect candidate is the desire when you have to hire a new employee.  How often does it happen? I think if you look at how most define perfect- it never happens.  It is like dating or picking a team for kickball or softball,  you have to try to find the optimal person, given what is available. 

What is the key?  Ideally, it's having the information so you can most accurately and objectively predict future performance. And inside this predictive information, in each of the imperfect candidates, its being able to understand the full package -the good, the bad and the ugly so you can make the best decision.

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are just beginning to have an impact on how organizations are managed, how talent decisions are made and how talent processes are designed, but the new reality will soon involve heavy doses of AR and VR…

Soft skills are critical across nearly all organizations- team behaviors,  management skills, communication capabilities, group problem solving, group decision making, personal effectiveness, emotional judgment, outlooks,  response and use of power,  conflict resolution and on and on.  With the increase in generational issues, diversity of cultures in organizations and pace of change, soft skills will increasingly get more important.

Organizations spend billions overall in training programs - some with good returns and others with little or none.  

When you are highly self aware AND you have the capability to quickly recognize scenarios where one of the ideal leadership roles fits,  your behaviors produce far more effective results…  There are several critical roles.  These are not totally mutually exclusive but the seven assist you in situationally shifting appropriately to best manage the scenario for the long term.

When you give advice, you are typically doing what is easiest to do, to get your thoughts across and perhaps feel good about yourself.  Most of the time, you will be far more effective by situationally playing a more effective role. Indeed, you will be more effective offering your advice as constructive feedback relative to their vision of success or skills or specific role.  This is especially true if you are the manager over people  to whom you are giving this advice.