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Strategic HR is Not Only Organizational Structure

Introduction: Our previous post in this series promised to explore some common pitfalls we have observed that undermine the delivery of...

What Does it Really Mean to be a Strategic HR Business Partner? Part 2

Brief Recap We have argued that to be successful as an HRBP you need to: Understand the business(es) you support Establish the foundation...

What Does it Really Mean to be a Strategic HR Business Partner?

Many HR Business Partners (HRBP) don’t start their careers in these roles. Frequently, they have succeeded in one or more of the HR...

The Human Resources Business Partner Revolution: Mirage or Unfinished Business?

As two long-time HR practitioners, we have spent a great deal of time reflecting on HR’s role in not only supporting an organization or a...

Sourcing and Developing Diverse Talent

This blog post was originally published on the Best Practice Institute (BPI) website in 2017.

Implicit Outcomes in Executive Coaching

Much has been written from the scholarly and practitioner perspectives about executive coaching. The aim of this article is to refract...

The War for Talent is Over. The War for Talent Strategy is Here.

In 1997 a seminal article published by McKinsey and Company coined the phrase, the “War for Talent.” The central theme was the impending...

Culture is Dead. Long Live Culture.

It may be an apocryphal story repeated so often that we believe it actually happened, but as the story goes, when asked about the...

Capitalism and the Era of Self

“Sears, in its glory days, was the opposite of financial engineering. It was run by real people; and it sold real stuff to real people....

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