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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

This wave of HR value delivery emphasized the need for HR practices to contribute directly to the achievement of organizational goals. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. ” This kind of planning results in squandered resources and missed goals and objectives.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

It has to put the strategy into practice with measurable objectives, consistent measurement of progress toward those goals, feedback systems to monitor activities along the way, and appropriate consequences for reaching or failing to reach the goals. The wrong approach leads to confusion over goals and to ineffectiveness.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened. Cut layers.