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Cure Your Company's Allergy to Change

Harvard Business Review

Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. If the COO launched a large, cross-functional improvement program, the CFO would underfund it. Executives at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan went into the field to gather input and communicate their commitment to change.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO. The HR profession can and should commit to creating a higher standard of talent stewardship, and to provide evidence-based frameworks, as the ones Ive recommended above, as the foundation.

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