First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Daniel H.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In At the time, Goldman Sachs’ Returnship was the only thriving, return-to-work internship program at a large company. The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” As a result, they should be owned by the company and given the greatest possible resources.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Worse than this is the fact that 60% of average Americans only get through the first chapter.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

At Australia''s Amplify Festival , former IBM Chairman/Europe Hans-Ulrich Maerki observed that one of the most important organizational and cultural shifts that occurred in the aftermath of IBM''s $3.5 But the company''s internal and external vocabulary alike emphasized the computer giant''s "product" origins.

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