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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2013

Leading Blog

Boards That Lead : When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan, Dennis Carey and Michael Useem. Beyond the Job Description : How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job by Jesse Sostrin.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2013

Leading Blog

Leadership Conversations : Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders by Alan S. Global Tilt : Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift by Ram Charan. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. Berson and Richard G. Lafley and Roger L.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Making Smart Decisions: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider [.].

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Lafley has co-authored another book, with Roger Martin, after previously co-authoring The Game Changer with Ram Charan. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Whereas in the [.].

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

Though many HR managers would take exception to those findings, they do, overwhelmingly, want more of a strategic voice than they have now. A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Hiring Human resources Talent management'

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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