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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations. Economy Hiring Human resources' Underemployed assets are frequently undervalued assets.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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Build a Great Company Culture with Help from Technology

Harvard Business Review

We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values. We’ve found that you can’t create a culture just through values, new processes, or an organizational restructure.