David Olson Ulrich is a university professor, author, speaker, management coach, and management consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of The RBL Group
I got this book as a gift from my senior HR manager. Highly recommend it to HR professionals. Dave Ulrich gives very good insight and practical advise for HR to enhance their value proposition from transaction and administrative works to transformation and strategic works. Its content is very pertinent and to the point in today HR environment, no matter you are working in which HR functions, industries and size of organisation. Surely this will help HR to improve their capability so as to deliver a better business result.
This is a great resource that I’ll be adding to my professional library! However, I can’t say that it had an exciting plot twist or any interesting character development… only professional development and the importance of transformational development in general!! Hahaha
This book is truly superb. It's helped me to better understand the challenges and issues facing modern HR professionals, but also includes DIY strategies on how to create a sensible plan to transform under-performing HR in businesses. My only tiny complaint is that the emphasis is more towards re-engineering larger organisations, and there is little in there which leads with examples for SME's.
I regularly use this to help structure competency framework interviews for Director/VP level HR people before I introduce them to clients. It really sorts out the average from the great and not once has a HR professional failed to be impressed by my seemingly endless knowledge, all gained as a result of reading it.
Oh .. how have we not understood this before: value is perceived in the eye of the receiver, not in the bringer of it. Great insights of what HR value really can be.