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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The 5 domains of EQ are: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation, 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. Human Resource Champions (1996).

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

But the ways people''s knowledge, skills and expertise get plugged into the workplace has been. It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. HCCI could buy equipment for one-third or half as much it would cost in the U.S. High-performing doctors from India were transferred to HCCI.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued in that post that the increasing ease of innovation meant that entrepreneurs were destined to become commodities. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.