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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. This is a laudable response.

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One Out of Every Two Managers Is Terrible at Accountability

Harvard Business Review

We think this trend has continued, and perhaps even been intensified as the workforce has become more diverse and especially as it has gotten younger. Over the last year blogs at US News , Daily Finance , Forbes , and articles like this one in the New York Times have questioned the work ethic and entitlement mentality of generation Y.

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Chris Christie’s “Bridge-gate” and the Nature of Payback

Harvard Business Review

Since humans began cooperating, and also began failing to, there have been, among the under-appreciated drivers of human misery, the three Rs of payback: retaliation, redirected aggression, and revenge. A reputation for effective retaliation may well reduce the likelihood that a victim will be similarly targeted in the future.