Birds Fly...Supervisors Die

Check out this post:
http://ilshrm.blogspot.com/2011/10/birds-flysupervisors-die.html?m=1

From Illinois SHRM blog site. This article is the last of a series of three posts covering the 2011 #SHRM Strategy Conference. This article has links to the first two articles.

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