Dave Ulrich (born 1954) represents one of the biggest shifts in corporate focus in the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. An academic at Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ulrich pioneered a new way of looking at corporations’ human resources departments. He was named as the most influential person in human resources by HR Magazine for both 2006 and 2007.

Starting with the widely accepted idea that human resources were becoming the most valuable asset in a knowledge-based economy where talent was at a premium, Ulrich argued that traditional corporate HR departments were entirely inadequate for the task of ensuring that companies got the right talent when they needed it. HR personnel were so involved in the detail of pay, pensions and disputes that they had no time for the higher strategic thinking required for the knowledge economy.

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