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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. If you are early in your career, you may be engaging a lot with recruiters. Breaking into Human Resources Management.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

If the virus isn’t under control by May 1 st 2021 and the economy hasn’t picked up, do recruiters have plans to push back start dates? You’d be foolish to think that every company is not having a conversation about how the virus impacts hiring and human resources. They have the resources to take a long-term view.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

The biggest problem I see in feedback loops is when managers think in resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency. When managers create and refine an agile culture, they stop thinking about people-as-resources and divide-and-conquer for the people and the team. People are not resources. Flow Efficiency Changes the Culture.

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