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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. These early successes demonstrated the potential value in HR and Procurement collaboration, but breaking silos required structural changes as well.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. Because most of us are bad at dealing with conflict, we're also bad at fostering what must, in a successful business, come through conflict — whether overt or covert. "I don't think [fill in the project] even matters to our customers.".

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