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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. In 2014, the U.S. Could the organization turn itself around?