HR is not about HR: Dave Ulrich talks to Oven-Ready HR

Beginning a new series of interviews with prominent HR leaders, prominent HR thinker Professor Dave Ulrich talks to the Oven-Ready HR podcast’s Chris Taylor about why HR professionals need to improve their understanding of business strategy.

Ulrich, professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of the RBL Group, talks to Oven-Ready HR, a new podcast which aims to demystify and deconstruct HR best practice, about why HR should spend more time with a firm’s customers; spend less time hiding behind theoretical model.

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