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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. Security teams have to take an active role in protecting the company as products are being developed; patching security holes in products after they’re out in the world is important but not enough. Insight Center.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.".

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When an Inability to Make Decisions Is Actually Fear of Conflict

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, when another company needed to reduce its expenses, the pain was spread like peanut butter across the different cost centers because the senior management team couldn’t reach a decision about where to focus — which meant that areas with growth potential lost as much muscle as those with less opportunity.

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People Are Not Cogs

Harvard Business Review

With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I've heard things like: "I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues." Talent, purpose, culture and creating meaning is the peopley work mostly viewed by the performance folks as "cost centers," or departments that exist only to manage legal risk.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). The team of 20 people represented technology, infrastructure, production operations, development and information security parts of the business.

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Why Marketing Needs Closer Ties to IT

Harvard Business Review

In the past, marketing teams might have developed their own tools and databases or bought hardware and software without considering whether they had the know-how to maintain the systems — perhaps because IT was seen as a roadblock or didn’t move as fast as marketing thought they should. What do Marketing and IT have in common?