This book provides hands-on-tools that show how HR Professionals can operate in all areas simultaneously and how to establish a partnership to deliver value and make the organizations more competitive. Specifically, it describe the issues about define the value that created for customers, employees and investors, measures of performance and inevitable outsourcing of the function. It shows line …
This book gives senior managers and HR practitioners the insight and tools they need to transform the human resources function from a transaction-based commodity service to consultant and strategic partner: presents the views of senior executives on how external pressures are causing internal changes to the business and what the implications are for HR; explains how and why the role of HR is c…
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies showed his manager how to repair an error that was costing the company $30 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to pull the company's website to the top of search engines. These are just two of many examples in Ideas are Free that highlight the single best resource in a company - tho…
brilliant insights into the mysteries of the change process at the heart of personal and organizational success. Immunity to Change is a wonderfully original approach to a familiar problem: why many crucial change efforts fail. It shows how the core problems of resistance to change stem from the critical gaps between what is required and a leader’s own level of development. Not being ab…
This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home…