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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Leading Blog

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey write in Talent Wins : Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of talent, yet the talent practices in their organizations use are vestiges of another era. This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

Leading Blog

As a leader you need to know how to judge raw human talent. In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. When you have an organization devoted to a person, you have a cult. When you have an organization devoted to a set of principles and values, you have a culture. People deliver numbers.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Unless you are an heir to a throne, people usually don’t begin their careers leading a large organization. Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. However, they use the terms “leadership” and “management” interchangeably.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. How to Establish Thought Leadership? Let us offer a story from the book to illustrate what we mean.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. They don’t know how key decisions are made, and they have great difficulty analyzing why people—or whole parts of the organization—aren’t meeting the business’s performance goals.“.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Hiring Human resources Talent management'