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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). In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” Human Resource Champions (1996). By Jim Collins. ” 10. By John Whitmore. By David Ulrich.

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

Harvard Business Review

public workforce-development system do. Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

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