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Why Do We Spend So Much Developing Senior Leaders and So Little Training New Managers?

Harvard Business Review

Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. In a zero-sum game, with HR and training budgets perpetually being stretched, a tilt toward leadership development is in no way surprising.

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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). Welch is perhaps the most famous CEO-turned-leadership-author and a vocal advocate of HR. By David Ulrich.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy.