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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 My favorite: HR as a cost center.  My favorite: HR as a cost center. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.  While some may contain elements of truth, most are overblown based on perceptions of HR that date back to its "Personnel" days.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. The COO of a specialty retailer recently led his IT and operations teams in a series of facilitated workshops to determine success measures for 47 proposed initiatives. The result?