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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.