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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

Instead of cutting human resource jobs (which seems counterproductive for a company that employs 2.3 Walmart has held a low-price leadership position from its start. The company’s obsession with competing with Amazon also seems to have taken Walmart’s focus off its brand identity in everyday low prices.

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A Way to Implement Change That Really Works

Change Starts Here

In 2008, I started Enclaria to help change agents like you make a positive difference in your organization and for the people who work in it. It’s easy to get stuck, wondering why what you’re doing isn’t working, lamenting all the resistance you face, and not knowing for sure what to do next.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Human resources'

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

Ascension centralized functions such as human resources, payroll, travel services, and finance, thereby streamlining operations and saving costs. Ascension has another solid reason for pursuing its strategy. It will be well positioned to thrive if value-based competition replaces the fee-for-service system in the United States.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. Educate leaders on how and why to optimize a blended workforce.

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Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

It isn't enough to explain the connection between your company's purpose and its strategy — and between that strategy and its execution — once. Ultimately, they serve to immerse employees in important content and give them the knowledge to confidently connect to the strategy. And don't disappear.