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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. Human resources Leadership Leadership development' We need leaders who can face different contexts and situations and handle different roles.

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The Most Challenging Leadership Job

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturing leaders can look to Six Sigma and other well-defined processes. Human Resource practice is bound by regulations and case law stipulating what is acceptable and what is not. Second, there's no standard educational path, or shared body of knowledge, for sales professionals.