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

Harvard Business Review

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll.

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