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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change. Human Resource Champions (1996). By Patrick M.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Opening your email as soon as you get into the office immediately draws you into an onslaught of short-term problems. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002.

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Moneyball and the Talent Mismatch Facing Business

Harvard Business Review

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business Review

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. Overall, our analysis included approximately 1.82 1712) and spent an additional 0.4