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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her.

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

Deming Institute

One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. After we discussed her interview a bit I asked everyone whether we should hire her.

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. But unlike websites, factories were capital intensive.

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