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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. Indeed, the best future HR and Procurement leaders may resemble a hybrid, like a “ Workforce Engineer ,” adept at both Operations Engineering and Strategic HR.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? As Seth Godin says : Long-term brands and relationships are built on alignment. Sometimes you're asking them to take the long view when they're rewarded by a different set of metrics. And that's alignment. Why is that? It's not very sexy. Wait for it.

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