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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Leading Blog

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey write in Talent Wins : Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of talent, yet the talent practices in their organizations use are vestiges of another era. This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. Managing organizations involves optimizing a number of different functions in order to create a product or service and archive measurable organizational outcomes. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Despite the fact that there is always a huge amount of learning and benefit that comes out of seeing whether that idea could have become a viable business or a new product or service within an organisation. One of mentees that worked with Naveen through the Founder Institute, Bangalore had a background in Human Resources.

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Why Managers and HR Don’t Get Along

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever noticed how ambivalent line managers are about the Human Resources function? The bottom line, as Ram Charan argued in his recent HBR article , is that many line managers are disappointed in their HR people. Human resources' In some cases, an HR person specializes in just one of these roles (e.g.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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How Boards Can Innovate

Harvard Business Review

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. The value of a board’s active engagement in innovation can well be seen at Diebold, a $3 billion-company whose 16,000 employees make ATMs and a host of related products. More blog posts by Michael Useem , Dennis Carey and Ram Charan.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.