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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

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

Harvard Business Review

ManpowerGroup found that 80% of companies lack a reliable picture of their total workforce. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement. Consider the case of a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Integration is hard.

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