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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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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business Review

What makes a brand successful in the digital age? Companies looking to exploit the branding potential unlocked by core digital technologies need to make the shift in their engagement with customers — from purchase to usage. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development. Ilka & Franz/Getty Images.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.". It's not as if IT departments aren't busy.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. manufacturers do source from domestic suppliers, they tend to regard them purely as a cost center.

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

Bosch firmly believes that research is not an end in itself – a never-ending race to develop new technologies – but rather something that makes a tangible contribution to improving the quality of people’s lives. Our BRGs are voluntary and are typically developed by associates who want to drive and influence our workplace culture.