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How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals…or Falter

Strategy Driven

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Here's a piece of advice about how to do it. You just finished reading How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals.or Confusion reigned. There appeared to be a thrash-about in several simultaneous directions.

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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Today, we must learn how to shape networks around a shared purpose. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough.

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How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired

Harvard Business Review

It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “You have no idea how much information about you and your circumstances is out there beyond what you’re broadcasting,” he says. Perhaps they have “clients they could introduce you to.”

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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. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. We’re not talking about Big Data.

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Marketers Are Not Publishing Enough Content

Harvard Business Review

They struggle with everything from its creation to its strategy to its editorial content, and even the best places to publish and share it effectively. Through the years, the smartest content marketers have understood not only the pulse of their network, but how to distribute their content in a way that fits the audience.