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The Evolution of HR

LDRLB

Peter Drucker wrote that personnel administrators are preoccupied with “gimmicks” and consistently complain that they lack status. Drucker wrote that almost 60 years ago and many other authors have echoed his assertions in the decades since. Just look at some of these essay titles: “Does Human Resources have a future?”

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Pat Lencioni’s Latest Point of View: “The Lost Art of Simplicity”

First Friday Book Synopsis

To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * This is going to be a difficult POV to write, because making a case for the power of simplicity is no easy task. Here is a brief excerpt from Pat Lencioni‘s latest Point of View. And yet, more than […].

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The Evolution of HR

LDRLB

Peter Drucker wrote that personnel administrators are preoccupied with “gimmicks” and consistently complain that they lack status. Drucker wrote that almost 60 years ago and many other authors have echoed his assertions in the decades since. Just look at some of these essay titles: “Does Human Resources have a future?”

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The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Compliance professionals work in every kind of business – from health care companies challenged by legislation to food companies under a regulator’s watchful eye to airlines obliged to track anti-terrorism data. At the level of a national economy, however, how much should we protest this particular line of labor dislocation?

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Automation Won’t Replace People as Your Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

His favorite, Southwest Airlines, certainly doesn’t lack for press about its positive organizational culture and cheerful customer-facing employees, but the example makes a more nuanced point about the contribution of people in a capital-intensive business. Therefore, they cease to provide a competitive advantage.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Twenty thousand years ago most people lived in small, nomadic groups, and these groups offered individuals more protection, resources for securing food, and mating opportunities than they would have had on their own. This effect can be so strong as to cause followers to give their lives for the cause.