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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

The Evolution of HR Value Creation, Delivery, and Capture HR value creation has come a long way from simply trying to secure a seat at the table. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. Management teams want automated and integrated techniques that enable analytics and scenario testing.

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Does Your Company Have Enough Sales Managers?

Harvard Business Review

A healthcare industry sales executive recently told us that as part of a continued effort to cut costs, her company had reduced the number of first-line sales managers from 66 down to 30 over a period of several years. The average span of control for U.S. Managers may micromanage their people. People management.

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Coddled Relatives Can Kill a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

During his entire career, he worked in his father''s span of control, reporting directly to his dad within six years of joining the business. Has he reported within his parent''s span of control for most/all of his career? Coddled individual: You need to get outside of your parent''s span of control.

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

Harvard Business Review

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. Given that span of control, during the two years I was chief of staff, you can imagine the number of times I had to give him bad news.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” Tom Watson, Jr.