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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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How the Best CEOs Differ from Average Ones

Harvard Business Review

Researchers at McKinsey recently published related observations pertaining to new CEOs. Ram Charan spoke to HBR about this several years ago in the context of “making tough calls.” In short, they asserted that the worst thing new CEOs can do is “sit on their hands.”

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