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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. 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. Almost everyone said no – because her interview was horrible.

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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. 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. Almost everyone said no – because her interview was horrible.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? There are no short-cuts in management.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

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. Assign these contacts into key categories: Most-senior clients. Most-senior people in your company. lawyers, accountants).

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare.

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