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

Strategy Driven

Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. For example, in China, markets are still highly regulated, and domestic players protected. It divested a number of personal care and confectionary lines (e.g.,

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

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. One example comes from the R&D division.