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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. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit. Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy.