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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Drucker passed away in 2005. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997).

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. If practices like Silver Star’s really are good for productivity and innovation, won’t companies adopt them on their own? Not necessarily.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.