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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients.

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

Harvard Business Review

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. HR typically owns the “employment system” for full-time and part-time employees.

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Internal Hires Need Orientation Too

Harvard Business Review

By now we know that career development is a primary driver of employee happiness and that promoting employee mobility leads to better cross-functional communication and retention of top performers. This should take place at each stage of an employee’s career. This mindset should be applied to internal promotions as well.