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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? In China, or Brazil, diversity is defined differently.

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7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors

Harvard Business Review

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. Many managers assume that they don’t need to tend to freelancers as much as they do regular employees—and there’s some truth to that, says Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and Drive.