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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Drucker passed away in 2005. Human Resource Champions (1996).

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David Van Rooy: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He previously held roles in International Human Resources, and was responsible for the world’s largest performance management and employee engagement programs at Walmart, covering nearly 2.2 Before Walmart his most recent role was at Marriott International, where he led global HR operations […].

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6 Key Elements of a Healthy Culture

Skip Prichard

We agree with the phrase attributed to Peter Drucker: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” In our opinion, nothing impacts employee engagement more than workplace culture – and almost every leader and human resource manager we know would like to see engagement increase. As leaders, we are all stretched in multiple directions.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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We Need Both Networks and Communities

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. At the organizational level, as I have written frequently, effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. Yet after more than a decade at war, there have been only minor changes in the systems that govern training and human resources, which still focus on efficiency at the expense of experimentation and innovation.

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Automation Won’t Replace People as Your Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Southwest operates in an industry that has long been obsessed with asset utilization as the key to competitiveness. As we’ve argued elsewhere , once smart machines are built to solve problems in asset efficiency (or indeed any area of operations) they very rapidly spread and become pervasive across an industry.