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Summary: Puts the human back in human resources
Review: Finally! This is the first book I've come across that celebrates the power and potential of the HR profession AND career! Drawing from her incredible experiences building Southwest Airline's famous people department, Libby gives us all practical advice on how to contribute to our company's success, while giving us the inspiring message that using our heads won't break our hearts.
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Summary: The Ultimate HR Navigational Tool
Review: Finally, here's a book that gives us the tools and wisdom for navigating a career in human resounces. While there are hundreds of management and organization development books or books that describe one aspect of the human resource function, this is the first book I've seen that offers itself as a trusted friend that will help you not only do your job better but also take your career to the top. Coming from Libby Sartain, it's not just theory. She's been there herself every step of the way. Warning. If you're used to the typically formal business book personality, HR From the Heart will come as a shock. Sartain's person-to-person style breaks the mold. Read this book and you'll want to invite her to your house for dinner. In fact, you'll feel as though you already have!
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Summary: A Book that Stands Alone
Review: Five stars! This book is marvelous precisely because it's NOT like all the other HR management and OD books out there. It is deeply human and smart and savvy. Sartain and Finney weave excellent HR and HR career advice, demonstrating that you CAN use both your head and your heart while running the HR departments of blazingly successful companies! Who can argue with the people success of Southwest Airlines? Bravo to this two writers who had the nerve to be so genuine, revealing and accessible, while offering up supremely practical advice and insights that HR readers can take to work and use the very next morning.
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Summary: Inspiring and Actionable
Review: HR From the Heart is a must read for human resource professionals, and anyone hoping to more effectively lead and manage their organizational talent. In a time where human capital offers perhaps the greatest opportunity for productivity gains within businesses, dealing with our human resources in a strategic, yet personal way is more important than ever. This book provides concrete advice combined with inspiring anecdotes that make it well worth time spent for managers everywhere.
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Summary: Inspiring and Actionable
Review: HR From the Heart is a must read for human resource professionals, and anyone hoping to more effectively lead and manage their organizational talent. In a time where human capital offers perhaps the greatest opportunity for productivity gains within businesses, dealing with our human resources in a strategic, yet personal way is more important than ever. This book provides concrete advice combined with inspiring anecdotes that make it well worth time spent for managers everywhere.
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Summary: HR From the Heart
Review: HR From the Heart may sound like a "touchy-feely" read, but that's the catch! This author has been there, done that, and offers real-life, business-driven strategies to move HR and HR professionals out of the dark ages, and into the reality of the real world. I guess you could call it "touch-feely" because it does "touch" the reader, and then makes you "feel" like taking some positive action. The other message I got from "HR From the Heart" is that there is a unique opportunity for HR to truly make a difference in any organization. A great read, by an author who practices what she preaches, and it works!
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Summary: This book makes me proud to be in HR.
Review: I always knew that HR was essential to building a profitable company, like Southwest Airlines. Libby Sartain's exceptionally well-written new book has given me a whole new set of practical ideas for taking my own company and my career (thank you very much) to the next level.
I think we should establish a nationwide Hole-in-the-Wall Gang! (Don't know what that is? Read Chapter 13.) You'll never be lonely in HR again.
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Summary: The Right Book at the Right Time!
Review: I discovered "HR from the Heart" while searching for something that would trigger a sense of professional renewal within me. I own many excellent books on HR issues and competencies, but this one offered some of the best career counseling I could have found anywhere.Libby Sartain spoke to me as a good friend of many years. She spoke to me as a good friend who knew that I have also been criticized for laughing too loud and enjoying my work too much; a good friend who was not afraid to share a vision and perspective for her work; a good friend who spoke with knowledge, professionalism, care and passion for her role in HR and the people she serves; and finally, a good friend willing to straighten out someone who might have spent the remainder of his career gaining competence, but never knowing a sense of joy, enthusiasm or mission. "HR from the Heart" has moved me from a good job to a professional career that embodies the only work I want to do. Whether you love your career in HR or seek purpose beyond the next paycheck--I enthusiastically recommend this book to HR professionals.
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Summary: Philosophy with good examples
Review: I found this book an excelent one because speak about our Job philosophy but in the mean time provide real life examples. It's an excelent source of benchmanrk for expeience HR professionals and an excelent overview book for new starters in HR. I higly recomend it
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I just finished reading this outstanding book that takes every HR professional on the wondrous, fun and sometimes very bumpy ride through HR. Through the author's actual accounts, the reader is provided with truly inspiring stories and strategies for building the People Side of Great Business. The author gives all of us in the HR profession, great tools, some that worked and others that didn't quite hit the mark, but all value added that helps us to continue to navigate our careers in this great profession of Human Resources. I look forward to the author's (hoped for) sequel, "Laughing Out Loud in the Hallways and Other Energizing People Strategies".
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