Top 100 Influencers in HR, Recruiting & Talent Acquisition with John Sumser

Top 100 v1.14 Dan Hilbert

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by John Sumser.

So far, the people covered in this series are a part of the industry’s bulwark. These folks shepherd new ideas into our universe with the painstaking care of estate conservators. Much of the ebb and flow of influence is spent on nuanced movement of the status quo.
Influence is precisely a complex calculus of popularity and [...]

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Top 100 Influencers v1.13 Dr. John Sullivan

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by John Sumser.

There are a group of people who influence the industry because of the things they make possible. Generally, these folks are really bright technologists or academics who think they have found ways to get the job of Recruiting or some branch of HR done better. In general, they look at the assembled masses of the [...]

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Making Careers Happen

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by admin.

By Sia Collins
The lucky have their career paths chalked out impeccably while there are many whose ‘careers just happen’. The ideal way is to create a road map of our goals – but not many of us follow it. At best we create a daily “to-do” list and place tick marks against everything we can. [...]

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Top 100 v1.12 J. William Tincup

Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
As I talked with William Tincup, I couldn’t help thinking about Kinky Friedman. Friedman is an Texan songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician who styles himself after Will Rogers and Mark Twain. Bigger than life and brimming over with ideas, Tincup, who is the public networking half of HR marketing firm Starr-Tincup, tirelessly channels Friedman’s [...]

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Top 100 v1.11 David Perry

Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
The interesting thing about the Top 100 process is that I continue to discover new areas of influence. So far, every aspect of influence covered in the stories has involved the insides if the industry,. Each of the first ten people profiled are influential within the domestic American HR-Recruiting Industry.
Peter Drucker famously said [...]

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Top 100 Influencers Progress Report

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
I am really surprised by what I’m learning as I tackle the Top 100 Influencers in HR-Recruiting project. Each day, I am surprised by the way that people see the industry. There are entire aspects of the picture that are invisible to some and plain as day to others.
The 10% mark seems like [...]

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Top 100 v 1.10 Rob McIntosh

Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser

Influence encompasses a broad range of behavior and experience. The difference between influence and power is subtle. Power is the direct ability to harness resources to get things done. Influence is like power without the underlying resources. Influence is the ability to cause other people to use their resources in a certain way.
According [...]

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Building bold leadership for change

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by admin.

By Kathleen Quinn Votaw
A recent Forbes article by Matthew Kirdahy titled “Filling the Talent Pool” begins: “The focus at private equity firms is shifting. Cash will always be king, but looking ahead, the most important type of capital may very well be human. It’s a company’s bold leadership that carries it into financial prosperity—not [...]

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Top 100 v1.09 Bill Vick

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
The origins of American outsourcing are found in “third party recruiting” (TPR). The Recruiting task is so complex and innovation so rapid that most companies choose to outsource some component of the work. Long before there were organized process oriented management companies (RPOs), the “headhunter” moved onto the organizational stage.
In good economic times, [...]

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Top 100 Influencers v1.08 Bill Kutik

Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by John Sumser.

By John Sumser
The HR-Recruiting Industry has a huge variety of subcultures and niches. There is no such thing as a standard set of practices in the industry. The regional and tribal nature of our organizations change the face of HR-Recruiting from town to town and industry to industry. You do the whole thing differently if [...]