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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

Coaching Tip

Mr. Winston joined Countrywide in May 2005, when the lender was riding the mortgage wave. Winston still recalls an episode from late 2005 that raised red flags for him. A former human resources executive at General Motors, he is a program manager for addiction treatment centers at several hospitals in Los Angeles.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Drucker passed away in 2005. By Daniel H.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. If practices like Silver Star’s really are good for productivity and innovation, won’t companies adopt them on their own?

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it. They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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