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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.