Jim Collins' famously colourful, if slightly simplistic, analogy that talent management is all about 'getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats' still works.

2009 was the year of Edupunk. In case you missed it, on the psychology grad network, PsychFutures, in chronological order you can read all the major articles. We're talking thinkers like Tapscott and Godin, think tanks like Demos, the Sunday Times, Fast Company, Mashable, New York Times. It was a big media friendly deal.

4 quarterly issues (roughly spaced from February, June, September and December).  27 heavyweight articles (if you need to know, that’s roughly 6.75 articles per issue). Big name authors – Ulrich, Flamholtz, Marks, Bassi, Spender - as well as soon to be lorded emerging stars – Wilson, Anderson, Thamotheram, Royal and O’Donnell. UK, Sweden, France, US, Denmark, Australia, Canada, France: a global POV, and a rich one too, from busy body regulators to myth debunking academics, coal facing practitioners to outside looking in investors, OBE’s to CBE’s. All intermingled with an uncountable number of fleeter footed poems, cartoons, quotes - ‘clickbait’ - as our inaugural and esteemed editor, Ann Graham christened them.

The fourth edition (Volume 1, Number 4) published December 2011 featured articles by:

• Stepehen Watson, Director of the Finance for Managers programme at Ashridge Business School
• Robert R. Locke and JC Spender: Robert is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Spender is Visiting Professor at Lund University’s School of Economics and Management and at ESADE (Universitat Ramon Llull).
• Ian Price, author of "The Activity Illusion: Why we Live to Work in the 21st Century and How to Live Instead"
• Ulf Johanson, Professor Emeritus at Mälardalen University, Sweden

In addition, we asked a number of former contributors to offer quick fire insights into ‘What’s Next for 2012’. Contributors included:

• Dr Michael Reddy, CEO of Human Potential Accounting
• Dermot Toberty, Director of HR Services for the Royal Mail Group
• Dr Michael Walton of the University of Exeter Business School
• Christian Nielsen, Associate Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark and Director of CREBS (Center for Research Excellence in Business modelS)
• Michael Mainelli, Chairman of Z/Yen, a commercial think-tank, and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Commerce and visiting professor at the London School of Economics
• Robert Locke, Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Ben Dyson of Positive Money
• Dr Carol Royal and Dr Loretta O’Donnell from the University of New South Wales

Handbook Editor, Anna Lloyd, also provided a look back across the 2011 series.

HubCap users can access and download the Handbooks from the HubCap library as well as join in the debate on the dedicated discussion Group.

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Christmas is coming fast and with it that annual angel/demon where you are already forgiving yourself for indulging two sizes in the wrong direction with the promise that starting Jan 1st you really honestly will do something about your health.

Of course, businesses do this too. They get to the end of the year, worked and at the moment increasingly partied out, and in the back of their minds they take stock and make very real commitments to making 2012 different, to focusing on improving the health and wellbeing of the bottom line.

Harold Jarche always has interesting things to say or pass on. One is a review of Steven Johnson’s new book, Where Good Ideas Come from: The natural history of innovation. The smart idea here is how smart ideas happen. And that is by bumping into each other. Clashing. Colliding. Challenging. Converging. Tapping one another on the shoulder and saying, hi. Finishing each other’s sentences. Making pauses pregnant.

Über ecologist E.O. Wilson reminds me of my boss, Dr Michael Reddy of Human Potential Accounting and HubCap. Not in terms of age (Wilson is 82, my boss, well, he would prefer to steer people South of anything like that figure). Or appearance (though they both seem wedded to a similar choice of shirts). Or achievement: there are few who stack up to Wilson in terms of global impact, though Michael did develop the world’s first truly global EAP service. Perhaps you could say it is that they are both still unable to ‘quit the field’ (though Wilson’s field – the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique - is far removed from human capital management).

To get your copy, go to the Human Capital Handbook microsite and click on Downloads (obviously!)

Or, if you’re a member of the free HCM library community, you can get a copy from the HubCap library.

Of course, you can also download the February and June editions too (a different cast list, but just as rich mix of heavyweight articles on all aspects of human capital management, measurement, and reporting – from the POV of business, academia and the investment community.)

We hope you enjoy it - and if you like what you see, share it too.

The third edition (Volume 1, Number 3) published September 2011 featured articles by:

• Manfred Kets de Vries, Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD
• Morten Kamp Anderson, founder & CEO of Danish human capital strategy consultancy, Aspector
• Boris Groysberg, Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School
• Christian Nielsen, Associate Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark and Director of CREBS (Center for Research Excellence in Business modelS)
• Michael Mainelli, Jamie Stevenson, & Raj Thamotheram
• Dr Michael Reddy, CEO of Human Potential Accounting

Download a copy of Volume 1, Number 3 here.

HubCap users can access and download the Handbooks from the HubCap library as well as join in the debate on the dedicated discussion Group.

Contact HubCap Evangelist, Stuart Shaw, for more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The second edition (Volume 1, Number 2) published in June 2011 featured articles by:

• Dr Carol Royal and Dr Loretta O’Donnell from the University of New South Wales
• Ted Cantle CBE of the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo)
• Dr Michael Walton of the University of Exeter Business School
• Dave Ulrich partner of RBL Group
• Ben Dyson of Positive Money
• Dr Eric G. Flamholtz of Management Systems
• Howard Marks of Oaktree Asset Management
• Amy Wilson of Wilson Insight.

Download a copy of Volume 1, Number 2 here.

HubCap users can access and download the Handbooks from the HubCap library as well as join in the debate on the dedicated discussion Group.

Contact HubCap Evangelist, Stuart Shaw, for more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it