Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. If you micromanage, you’ll have employees that wait for instructions every step of the way and will not use their own resources. This is a fine line to walk as a leader.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

People analytics, also known as “talent analytics,” “human analytics,” and “human resource analytics,” is defined as the use of individualized data about people to help organizations make well-informed decisions about talent acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Most of us are, by nature, “cognitive misers,” a term coined by social psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor to describe how people have a tendency to preserve cognitive resources and allocate them only to high-priority matters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

What excited Sam was McGregor's clear and compelling articulation of the personnel (today, we say "human resources") policies in which he instinctively believed. Taylor, the 19th century guru of time and motion studies, which were used by management to micromanage workers; to tell them not only what to do but also how to do it.

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