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    Blunt leadership lessons learned over a lifetime

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    Steps for tackling due diligence in HR M&A



    July 2014 HR Strategy and Planning Excellence Articles

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    Dated: 10-03-2014

    The Frank Principles of Business: Blunt leadership lessons learned over a lifetime

    Frank was ex-Special Forces with a fine arts degree—an unusual mix. He achieved a lot in his business career by following five simple principles that he was able to apply to any business, and many have achieved a lot by learning to do the same. If you can apply these same principles consistently to your organization, you will find that you are able to move away from being a micro-manager and instead become far more strategic in the way your run your own business.

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    Dated: 10-09-2014

    5 Bad Bosses: What HR should do about them?

    The fact is no boss is perfect. All bosses have a little bad boss in them. So how can HR and the executive in charge know which ones need help and how to help them? Here are five types of bad bosses and what HR can do about them, based on our firm’s experience partnering with HR to help bad bosses

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      8
    Dated: 04-17-2015

    Cloud Rising for Employee Data Management: And how it improves HR business practices

    As cloud computing continues to elevate enterprise technology, businesses are discovering opportunities to capitalize on one of their most valuable assets: employee data. The cloud has been driving growth in the human resource technology space for some time, particularly with the online benefit administration and employee engagement software market. Investing in a cloud-based solution makes it easier for companies to integrate other solutions, and the cost is lower compared to that of traditional interfacing.

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    Dated: 04-17-2015

    Where’s Waldo?: Steps for tackling due diligence in HR M&A

    Due diligence often reminds me of the children’s book “Where’s Waldo?” because, while trying to find the “Waldo”, your eyes and attention are drawn in many different directions at once. The due diligence process can be a chaotic and daunting task for anyone, especially with today’s added global complexities. However, it is a necessary evil because it is imperative that you uncover any concerns prior to buying a company.

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      8
    Dated: 04-17-2015

    The Hidden Value of Organizational Health: And how to capture it

    Business leaders often complain that “one off” reorganization initiatives bring only ephemeral benefits. Attempts to close every benchmark and best-practice gap also end in disappointment.

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    Dated: 10-02-2014

    Your People (HR) Dept. Strategy – 2: HR Matrix to balance and align your People...

    If you are growing, your People Departments are going through known growth phases. What you are experiencing is so normal it has distinct known phases! Unfortunately, most leadership and/or HR are not trained and do not realize there are defined stages. While you evolve from crawling or clawing your way along to walking and then jogging to running, wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple tool to help your People/Talent Management departments evaluate where it is and what it needs to do next?

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    Dated: 09-19-2014

    Creating a World-Class Organization: What LinkedIn’s CEO expects from HR

    It’s a rare opportunity to sit down with the CEO of an esteemed $473 million organization employing over 5,000 people, to speak candidly about what they expect from their HR leader. But that’s precisely what happened at the HR Symposium in May.

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    Dated: 10-02-2014

    Mitigating People Risk in Major Transactions: Soft due diligence and hard due diligence

    Gerald was head of HR for an international company and had worked his way up from an almost entry level position. He was good at what he did; he knew the company and the industry. He was trusted as a provider of sound advice and he considered, as much as any HR person could be, that he was "at the table".

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    Dated: 10-02-2014

    Alignment and the Multifaceted Organization: 8 stumbling blocks and 8 building blocks

    We humans have a brilliant ability to organize ourselves into groups and plan out how to get our work done. We have evolved to collaborate. We love it. We crave it. We cannot live without it, quite literally. As a result, the world we live in today is filled with the largest and most complex organizations ever known—organizations that span markets, channels, disciplines, functions, and even industries and continents. We have outdone ourselves.

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    Dated: 10-01-2014

    One Size Does Not Fit All: Competitive advantage comes from being different

    As some of you may know, my approach to solving HR problems is customized. I do not guide customers into standardized templates and software. When I attend conferences, I am almost always asked which software I selected for an analytics or workforce planning solution when I led the effort for a global Fortune 100 company. My answer is, “none.” I thought I would take this opportunity to provide some insight into my reasoning.

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