• Start networking right away (Even if you hate it)
  
  
• Working with Executive Search Firms.
  
  
• How to work with executive recruiters, article from The Ladders. (PDF article)
  
  Link to the Ladders website
  
  
• You always have a job (Even if you're unemployed)
  
  
• 4 steps for effective online networking
  
  

• Video interviews with experts on talent.
  
  
• What it takes to be great.
  
  
• Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should Too.
  
  
• Retaining Key Employees in Times of Change August 2010 article from McKinsey Quarterly.
  
  

• Breaking the Email Addiction.
  
  

• Proof Positive - Leadership in the Recession.
  
  
• How one CEO learned to fly, article from Fortune.
  
  
• How to ask better questions.
  
  
• Authentic Leader : How to be one by Scott Beagrie from Personnel Today magazine 2005.
  
  

Coaching and Mentoring

• How to spot the "Uncoachables". 
  
  
• Interesting recent research on what makes a difference in coaching The ties that bind.. Anna Duckworth & Erik de Haan. From Coaching at Work 4.5, September/October 2009, pp. 30-34.
  
  

Compensation and Benefits

• Managers in Emerging Economies Winning on Pay:Hay Group research finds US Managers Lose Out on Disposable Income.
  
  
• Top performing companies pay 5% less.
  
  
• Turkey in global top five for real term executive salaries according to Hay Group research.
  
  

Positive Psychology

• Optimists "have less heart risk".
  
  
• Optimistic women "live longer".
  
  
• Feeling grumpy "is good for you".
  
  
• Great article on self-control from The New Yorker about the famous Marshmallow Test.

 

Lessons from Neuroscience for Business

• The Brain that Changes Itself-An excerpt from Norman Doidge's excellent book on brain plasticity.
  This article can also be downloaded from this site - http://www.positscience.com/lp/2010Doidge2/
  
  
• Managing with the Brain in Mind-Article from strategy+business by David Rock.
  This article can also be downloaded from this site (free registration required) - http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09306
  
  

General Interest

• A useful article on the economic crisis and its long term effects from the BBC.
  
  
• Pharma split on nature of mergers as kill or cure.
  
  
• A guide to business finance for HR professionnals.