First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2013

Dave Ulrich is a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources.

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Ulrich Human Resources Wilde Drucker 113

LDRLB

MARCH 21, 2012

I have been reading a lot about HR lately, and am a bit perturbed by the negative perception of HR in management writings. Peter Drucker wrote that personnel administrators are preoccupied with “gimmicks” and consistently complain that they lack status. “Judge me more by my future than by my past” (Dave Ulrich).

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Ulrich Human Resources Drucker Airlines 119

LDRLB

MARCH 21, 2012

I have been reading a lot about HR lately, and am a bit perturbed by the negative perception of HR in management writings. Peter Drucker wrote that personnel administrators are preoccupied with “gimmicks” and consistently complain that they lack status. “Judge me more by my future than by my past” (Dave Ulrich).

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Ulrich Human Resources Drucker Airlines 74

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100