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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. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

As Seth Godin says : Long-term brands and relationships are built on alignment. In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others.