SIA Executive Forum Recap:

Links to Interesting Resources Mentioned by Speakers

After three days of sessions at Staffing Industry Analysts’ Executive Forum, I have pages of notes from speaker insights and a running list of resources that were either quoted or

used as examples in the sessions. Below are hyperlinks to some of the data points, books and videos I found interesting, organized by the speaker who shared them:

Jack Daly

2014 Year in Review: Jack shares his “Life by Design” approach in action, outlining metrics he uses to help achieve his goals from a personal standpoint

Ryan Estis

Seth Godin & Tom Peters Interview: [VIDEO] As part of the American Express Open Interview series, Tom and Seth share how blogging has changed their lives

Eric Gilpin

ASA Skills Gap Index: Tracks the most difficult to fill jobs in the United States

The New Geography of Jobs: A book by Enrico Moretti outlining job creation within cities and future impact; Also featured in this Wall Street Journal article

Gary Hamel

Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry: A book by Nancy Tennant Snyder that outlines Whirlpool’s change effort to instill innovation at all

levels of the company Jacob Morgan

PayScale’s Employee Tenure Report: Shares employee tenure, average age, median pay and more for many of the Fortune 500.

Stay tuned: Barry Asin & Ron Mester

Notable but not yet fully released, this joint research by SIA and ERE on total talent management talks about the “revenge of HR.” If you attended the conference, look at the presentation slides from Barry and Ron’s session for more information

What insights or resources did you find most interesting from the sessions?

If you didn’t attend, check out this blog with takeaways (and tweets) from nine sessions

throughout the event.