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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Human Resource Champions (1996). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 1. top-level internal coaching to executives.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Their greatest human capital concerns have shifted. They seem increasingly focused on productively cultivating that core 20% to 25% of people who reliably generate the 70% to 80% of enterprise value. Conversely, serious part-timers quickly learn that productively juggling several temporary positions requires more skill than luck.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. These teams regularly come up with innovations that enable these online retailers to roll out more new products and services faster than their competitors.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Communities of passion who share a common interest (photography, or food, or books) can inform new product lines. Disrupting How We Work. What could you do together? Everything.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” Precisely because it doesn’t try to do too much, it appears less risky, less threatening, and less disruptive.

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