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From the Rubble of Dreams: Resilience to Be Reborn

Lead Change Blog

Build on your strength and core competencies. One of her major partners is the National Human Resource Association. Thankfully, virtual systems like Zoom and Facetime can put people together. What would you do if your life’s work vanished? Is it possible to grow through such challenges? Here are her lessons.

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Change is Bad

In the CEO Afterlife

At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. Concurrently, Google relentlessly works at upgrading its workplace and its workforce to facilitate exponential growth. This initiative isn’t change. It’s improvement. Is Zappos there yet?

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How to Make Employment Fair in an Age of Contracting and Temp Work

Harvard Business Review

They responded by focusing their businesses on core competencies — that is, activities that provide the greatest value to their consumers and investors— and by shedding less essentially activities. Firms typically started outsourcing activities like payroll, publications, accounting, and human resources.