Alan Foster
@alanvfoster
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Partner at @ghsmartco. Co-Author of #PowerScore. Hire well. Lead well. Enjoy life.
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Joined September 2007
My take on falling in love in the office
Hiring Leaders is a big commitment: Fall in love with reference checks and not the candidate. @ghsmartco's @alanvfoster shares four simple rules for reference checks in @Forbes article “CEOs and Boards: A Decent Proposal.”
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50/50 odds and even harder to judge it over Zoom
I think people still underestimate what a crapshoot the hiring process is.
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WFH new world order
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Thanks for the level headed facts @DrTregoning
What is the ‘#Wuhan #coronavirus' and what do we know about it so far? @DrTregoning spoke to @SRileyIDD from @MRC_Outbreak @Imperial_JIDEA
https://t.co/Qez8wvsc4t
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An excellent workshop prepping for our first mentoring sessions #onehouramonth
Brilliant turnout at our first London-based #mentoring #workshop of 2020! Its fantastic to have so many people joining the 1MM mission to guide young people towards #brighter futures. If you're interested in mentoring a young person in #London, get in touch. #itstartswithone
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A good way to hide something from me forever would be to say it loudly & clearly in a voicemail you left on the phone I carry with me everywhere at all times.
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Teenagers trying to make phone call on ancient apparatus
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It speaks to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's character that her primary concern after discovering a murder on the dancefloor is that the mood is not also killed.
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Hi everyone, good news. Unlike most of my twitter feed, I have NOT just written a book and so you don't have to buy it. As you were.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has a message for the Common People 🧐 🎩
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Can't face reading the latest airport non-fiction book on Leadership? Instead, watch the Netflix documentary on the cluster that was the Fyre festival. Excruciating lessons in building out the wrong team, a charismatic founder ref… https://t.co/xdu9jE1blI
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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CEOs can't collect, crunch and codify all human behaviour on their digital dashboards - but what they miss is more important than what they measure. My column on the all-important human dimension https://t.co/h3FSaMEJvl
@GDruckerForum #GPDF18
ft.com
Persuading leaders to examine soft factors requires determination
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I have quoted this study. I wanted it to be true.
I wonder: Were those quickest to embrace the findings of the original Israeli parole-board study among the likeliest to be warning their students about the dangers of confirmation bias? A testimony to how deep confirmation bias runs in our souls?
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Whilst y'all retweeting that 10 habits of successful people nonsense, plz remember that Proust used to wake up around 4pm, have a cheeky opium and then worked from bed whilst drinking coffee & eating croissants (2 if it was a good day) until if was time to go out for dinner
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Asia-Pacific private equity firms that build strong talent management capabilities will be better positioned to produce top returns: https://t.co/ZlEJk3Z7Dn
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I was starting to get my head around Agile and then I read this in the McKinsey quarterly
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