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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

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In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. It didn’t take long to figure out that I wasn’t good at trying to be and do all the things to serve all the people.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Human Resource Champions (1996).