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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Patrick M.

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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. For instance, we have a course for mid-level executives, called the Manager Development Course (MDC).

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

Harvard Business Review

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. That will take leadership and innovation from various constituencies — business (individual firms, but especially industry associations), education, and labor — and targeted federal funding and incentives.

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