Peter Cappelli

The Performance Management Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (37 mins)
• By Peter Cappelli, Anna Tavis
• Narrated By Fleet Cooper

The dreaded annual review is giving way to more frequent, development focused conversations between managers and subordinates.

"The Performance Management Revolution" is from the October 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review.

The Common Myths about Performance Reviews, Debunked

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Peter Cappelli
• Narrated By Fleet Cooper

Performance appraisals are one of the most ubiquitous, and also one of the most unpopular, protocols in workplace. In fact, several companies have recently made headlines in their attempts to go about them differently. But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term?

Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By Peter Cappelli
• Narrated By Don Hagen
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Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won’t accept jobs at the wages offered.

Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Peter Cappelli, Habir Singh, Michael Useem, and others
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained the unique practices developed by the Japanese to bring that country's economy out of the ashes. The emerging Chinese juggernauts - the Alibabas, Lenovos, and Haiers - need similar revelation since they are a different breed in their own right.

Talent Management for the 21st Century (Harvard Business Review)

• UNABRIDGED (30 mins)
• By Peter Cappelli
• Narrated By Todd Mundt

Every talent management process in use today was developed half a century ago. It's time for a new model. From the March 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.