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No Accounting for People

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Lars Dalgaard is on stage in San Francisco, pouring bits of fruit in to a liquidizer. The fruit has been placed in various containers marked with “ingredients” such as engagement, collaboration, scalability and Web 2.0. Finally he pours in some yoghurt and presses the mix button.

We can never wholly separate the human from the mechanical sides.

Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933)

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  1. Gary S. Becker, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, 2nd edn. New York: Columbia University Press for NBER, 1975.

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  2. Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy and Performance, Harvard Business School Press, 2001, and The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy, Harvard Business School Press, 2005. 8. Best Companies, Fortune, January 29, 2009.

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  3. Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated, Nicholas Brealey, 2008, pp. 137–44.

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Donkin, R. (2010). No Accounting for People. In: The Future of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274198_11

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