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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Christensen. Human Resource Champions (1996).

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. Everyone knows the story. This was not a new lesson, at least to the armed forces.