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Powerful Question #1 | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

January 2, 2013. Professionally, I have a goal to post fresh content on this site each week in 2013, and also to make some aesthetic upgrades. Personal…lose 52lbs in 2013, one per week. Thanks for sharing, Nathan, and have a great 2013! Pursue family by spending quality time with them. Human Resources (4).

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The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2015 Fall Conference, Sep 18-20

Deming Institute

and Board of Directors, Capital Quality & Innovation. Doug Stilwell , Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Drake University and Mark Lane, Director of Human Resources, Urbandale Community School District. Speakers: Jim Benson , Founding Partner, Modus Cooperandi and Author of Personal Kanban. Related: The W.

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The Secret to Successful Recruiting

Strategy Driven

Quality Pre-Screening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Complimentary Resource – Six Pitfalls of Workforce Planning. A recruitment software package will post a position multiple times, both on internal sites and on as many external sites as you wish. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

We all know that job satisfaction often hinges on the quality of the relationships we have with our bosses. Scot Sellers, a protégé of Sanders who went on to become CEO of Archstone before retiring in 2013, recalled that his former boss “would lay out his vision and say, ‘I would like you to be a part of it.’

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) ” This ended up being the “true north” our employees rallied around.