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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. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers.

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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. The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. On day one of a new venture, the executive team and the investors are on the same page; both plan for a big outcome. You'll have to figure out which customer to serve.

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