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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. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit.

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Google Chrome: Focus moving to capturing "Real Estate" | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 world, the “real estate&# needed to do these things was the operating system. The power is slowly being taken away from the operating system. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) They communicate 3. They share 4. In the web 2.0

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What to think when things do not add up…

Deming Institute

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive.

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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. By comparison, 62% of incumbents in high-income economies on average remained in the top quintile for the same decade.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. When one million bottles of St.