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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. Human Resource Champions (1996). By Jim Collins. By David Ulrich. By Jack Welch.

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You’re Never Done Finding Purpose at Work

Harvard Business Review

” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. To date, she has occupied positions in human resources, product development, and stakeholder engagement. She moved to Boston in 2015 to focus on quality innovation. . “I will not fall into complacency. Purpose mindset.

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Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals

Harvard Business Review

We have offered well over 100 MDC sessions since Jeff took the helm in 2001, and he has participated in all but one. Some of GE’s best-known initiatives — WorkOut; CAP; Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma; Leadership, Innovation, and Growth ; and, more recently, Simplification — took shape at Crotonville.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. That will take leadership and innovation from various constituencies — business (individual firms, but especially industry associations), education, and labor — and targeted federal funding and incentives.

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