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Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage
Organizations can gain a powerful competitive advantage by tapping into their talent and learning how to effectively organize and lead it. But, according to Professor Edward Lawler in Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage, although many organizations acknowledge the importance of people, most do little or nothing to make them a source of competitive advantage.
Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital
Beyond HR (John W. Boudreau and Peter M. Ramstad (Harvard Business School Press, 2007)) shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value.
The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
This book (Edited by Jay A. Conger and Ronald E. Riggio, (Jossey-Bass, 2006)) includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader.
America at Work: Choices and Challenges
A companion to the New American Workplace, which is co-published with Society for Human Resource Management and the Center for Effective Organizations, this volume edited by Edward E. Lawler III and James O’Toole (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006) contains original articles on workplace issues in America today.
The New American Workplace
James O’Toole and Edward E. Lawler III, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006) Thirty years ago, the bestselling “letter to the government” Work in America published to national acclaim, including front-page coverage in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Achieving Strategic Excellence: An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations
Edward E. Lawler, John W. Boudreau, and Susan Albers Mohrman (Stanford Press, 2006) This is the Center for Effective Organizations’s (CEO) fourth national study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations. It is the only long-term national study of this important function.
Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness
In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy.
Designing the Customer-Centric Organization: A Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process
Designing the Customer-Centric Organization (Jay R. Galbraith, (Jossey-Bass, 2005)) offers today’s business leaders a comprehensive customer-centric organizational model that clearly shows how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer.
Creating the Good Life :Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness
Professionals and business people in midlife are increasingly asking themselves “what’s next?” in their careers and personal lives. Creating the Good Life (James O’Toole (Rodale Press, 2005)) draws on the wisdom of the ages to help contemporary men and women plan for satisfying, useful, moral, and meaningful second halves of their lives.
Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage
Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger, (AMACOM, 2004) ask “Why do so many newly minted leaders fail so spectacularly?” Part of the problem is that in many companies, succession planning is little more than creating a list of high-potential employees and the slots they might fill.
Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing
Edward E. Lawler III, David Ulrich, Jac Fitz-enz, James Madden, and Regina Maruca, (Jossey-Bass, 2004) discuss how today’s highly competitive marketplace demands that human resources departments emerge from under their administrative workloads and become full partners in determining their organizations’ winning strategies.