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Why does everyone hate HR?
The great value in reading widely is that you hear different opinions and these can change your own view for the better. From time to time though, it is just as refreshing to hear one’s own view reinforced. That was the case on reading Margaret Heffernan’s article “Why does everyone hate HR” published recently on the BNET site. The original article is at http://www.bnet.com/blog/business-strategy.
Margaret comments that “Every leader knows that people are a firm’s most precious asset. Every leader should know that investing in people is more efficient than investing in technology. And seven percent of CEOs say they don’t have the talent they need to execute their strategy effectively.” She asks why it is that despite such awareness HR is seen as the least important discipline. Margaret writes for the multi-national firm CEO reader but her message is easily translated to the SME.
