
This book is available to read until 19th January, 2026
- 237 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In Touching People's Lives, former SHRM CEO and master storyteller, offers a wellspring of experience and inspiration on the challenge for all leaders charged with the development of people to responsibly cultivate compassion, integrity, courage, and accountability in all they do, regardless of how difficult the challenge. Along the way Losey gives readers a front row seat to many of the major developments in the field of Human Resource Management and reveals his own journey of connecting HR to the business, managing diversity, working on competencies, ensuring ethics, and helping to create a profession.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Michael
- Chapter 2. A Call from the Chairmanās Office
- Chapter 3. A Case Study (Burroughs and Sperry Merger)
- Chapter 4. No Greater Sorrow
- Chapter 5. Anticipating the Future: The Most Important Part of Management
- Chapter 6. Mr. WynnāLessons Learned
- Chapter 7. Touching Peopleās LivesāMore Learning
- Chapter 8. Government Touching Peopleās Lives
- Chapter 9. The U.S. Congress and the Laws It Passed But Did Not Follow
- Chapter 10. The Senator and His Aide: Compounding Misinformation
- Chapter 11. The Competency Equation
- Chapter 12. Advocacy
- Chapter 13. Having Time for One Employeeās Issue
- Chapter 14. Globally Touching Peopleās Lives: It Will Not Work in My Country
- Chapter 15. When You Discover Something Is Just Not Right, What Do You Do?
- Chapter 16. What Would You Do If You Were the CEO?
- Chapter 17. Business EthicsāLeadersā Responsibilities
- Chapter 18. Leadership Made Simple, Not Easy
- Chapter 19. Self-Development
- Chapter 20. Michael Revisited
- Index
- About the Author