It’s all about leadership

Dave Ulrich told last week’s HR Leadership Alliance of Warren Buffet’s latest investment in GE and Goldman Sachs.  Why?  Not simply because of their performance, but because they are known to have excellent leaders. Read more…

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“So that……?”

Anyone who attended last week’s HR Leadership Alliance in London will know what I’m talking about.  This is a phrase coined at the conference by HR Guru Dave Ulrich, who gave some fascinating insights into the role of HR in business today.

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Out of the comfort zone

Halloween has come and gone and there may have been more than a few HR people feeling like the Grim Reaper than usual at this year.  Slashing costs and making redundancies is never easy at the best of times - and never more so than now in the knowledge that it won’t be easy for people to find new jobs, particularly in the manufacturing, construction and, dare I say it, corporate finance sectors. Read more…

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