HR’s Focus on Service and Culture Transitions

My post on comparing HR and IT as service parts of the organization once again brought out the best in my readers. Miki at Leadership Turn gave her usual, and appreciated, “words-that-we-would-like-to-say-but-don’t” in regard to a McKinsey Quarterly’s quote “only HR can translate a business strategy into a detailed talent strategy…”:
“That has to be the stupidest statement that ever came out of McKinsey! I spent 25 years as a recruiter and another decade teaching line managers better hiring skills and in most instances HR has neither the knowledge nor the business acumen to detail staffing needs for any project, tech …read more