In a recent interview in Workforce Management magazine Henry Mintzberg, a renowned management scholar from McGill University in Montreal, stated “My advice to managers today is, Think, don’t copy.”  I’ve been preaching for a couple years that copying others just leaves you behind the leaders and behind the curve of innovation.

Likewise, Huselid, Becker and Becker, in their new book Workforce Scorecard note that benchmarking is no longer a useful exercise.  Clearly, benchmarking has become passé since the dotcom bust because companies are no longer comparable, even within the same industry.  When I introduced benchmarking to HR in 1985 the market and industries were more stable.  Since dotcom that is no longer true.
 
If you want to lead you have to learn to be predictive.  That is why I’ve been working with 20 leading organizations for the past 18 months on the Predictive Initiative. 

See my white paper on Predictive Management.  It's free and you can get it by this link:

Predictive Management - How to Optimize Human Capital
 
Good luck.
 
Dr. Jac