Dave Ulrich > Quotes

“HR professionals play three roles: • Storyteller • Strategy interpreter • Strategic facilitator”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
― Dave Ulrich, The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win

“Research confirms what we intuitively know: aligned, innovative, and integrated HR practices make a dramatic difference in individual and organizational performance.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“domain in which HR tends to be the weakest is in understanding and applying technology to build HR”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“We believe that an emerging metric for HR will be ROI (meaning return on intangibles) because HR professionals position their organization with their investors.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“Effective HR professionals recognize, accept, and act on a new normal in business. When faced with “tell us about your business,” they can respond by discussing global changes in context, stakeholders, and strategies. These shifts are not cyclical events that will return to a former state—they are a new normal grounded on enormous disruptive and evolutionary changes.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“Connecting people though technology • Aligning strategy, culture, practices, and behavior • Sustaining change”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“When desperate people seek easy solutions without doing the hard work of fundamental learning and change, resilience is undermined and real growth and learning fade.”
― Dave Ulrich, The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win

“look backward for answers to future problems may be left behind.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“As the pace of change increases in every aspect of our lives, HR professionals have become change champions in many companies around the world, and this has generally been much to their employers’ advantage.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“Competencies can be communicated—and therefore can be taught and learned.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“administration must be flawless; HR practices must be innovative and integrated; and HR must turn strategic aspirations into HR actions. But rather than rely on these waves, we see future-facing HR professionals looking outside their organizations to customers, investors, and communities to define successful HR.”
― David Ulrich, HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

“culture is not only norms, behaviors, and values, but the norms, behaviors, and values that will induce targeted customers to have a more intense relationship with the firm.”
― Dave Ulrich, Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do about It

“desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según”
― Dave Ulrich, Reinventando la organización: Cómo crear mayor valor en mercados en constante evolución

“HR professionals often see their largest job challenges as sourcing talent, improving performance management, defining compensation, and providing training programs and other HR systems.”
― Dave Ulrich, HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In

“When people are given challenging responsibilities, autonomy to control their outputs, participation in decision making, and visible and valuable recognition, it meets virtually all of the criteria for effective rewards.”
― Dave Ulrich, Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do about It