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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. By Jim Collins.

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You’re Never Done Finding Purpose at Work

Harvard Business Review

Thus if we want to stay in the “sweet spot” among these three, we must not fear career transitions or even change itself; indeed, we must seek them out. Career Transitions. Don’t Underestimate the Power of Lateral Career Moves for Professional Growth. She moved to Boston in 2015 to focus on quality innovation.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors. public workforce-development system do.

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