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The HR Business Partner Handbook
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The HR Business Partner Handbook

by Glenn Templeman
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 6m
English
Kogan Page
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10

The active application of procrastination

The first rule of HR

This might seem like a strange subject for our tenth principle or for a principle at all, especially in the world of business, but I’ve been holding it back for as long as possible and in some ways it has been relegated from first place to tenth. It is remarkable that we have gotten this far without it being mentioned once! We are not dealing in rules, but if we were, I think we could consider whether procrastination could be the first rule of HR. Let me explain…

The placement of this subject at the start of a part titled ‘The road to strategic’ signals the beginning of a direction change for us. The first nine chapters have all been about building up the fundamentals of how ...

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