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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. Human Resource Champions (1996). By David Ulrich.

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

It's hard to find leaders of the human resources (HR) function who are active in helping their organization improve the way it works. In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St.