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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. If you are pondering how management consulting got this far, this book is for you. By 2006, 146K MBA degrees were granted.

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1 Strategy to Avoid Tolerating Poor Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

You can't escape difficult performance management decisions. Benefits of Effective Performance Management. The benefits of effective performance management are well documented beyond the obvious benefit of increasing revenue. Also known as discretionary effort, OCB is performance management's "Holy Grail." Gilbert, T.

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a compilation of 82 valuable articles called Perspectives, 4 Harvard-reviewed business articles and 8 other articles written by various members of The Boston Consulting group between 1968 to 2005. WHY READ IT? QUICK OVERVIEW. INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS.

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Does Your Team Hoard Information?

Harmonious Workplaces

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals. Why allow stinginess?

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Copper Plunges to Price Seen February 2006; Copper vs. Gold

MishTalk

Fueling the broad commodities collapse, the price of copper is now back to a level seen on February 28, 2006. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

Human Resource Planning, 2006. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Many HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

You get what you plan for when it comes to supply chain management. For too long, organizations have approached talent management with ad-hoc talent strategies. What if you developed a verbund talent strategy? These closely bundled partnerships each have a specific focus and competency to support the supply chain.

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