Every company has a business strategy, a risk strategy, a strategy for growing markets, for managing human resources and so forth.

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Despite a country founded by risk-takers, our schools are the antithesis of American culture--bound by arcane rules, operating regardless of outcomes, eschewing creative technologies and managing human resources like spokes in a wheel, without differentiation or reward.

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In a statement, she said that Mr Pinho was removed because of his "difficulties in managing the human resources at his disposal".

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She is managing director, human resources at J.

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But since real-estate professionals tend to be salespeople at heart and the market for sales aces is growing, making a switch to sales roles in other, more robust industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and computer software, is usually possible, says Jay Hargis, founder and managing partner of Talent Insight Group, a human-resources consulting firm.

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Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.

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What if your years of managing a Burger King in high school counted toward credit for a business degree in human resources?

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