Hr from the Heart: Inspiring Stories and Strategies for Building the People Side of Great Business

Offering advice to human resources executives, this book provides guidance for both serving the company one works for and advancing one's own career. It specifically describes techniques for demonstrating the value of the human resources department, minimizing layoffs, avoiding the over-reliance on consultants, building strong managers, and conducting performance reviews. Sartain is a human resources executive; Finney is a business journalist and consultant. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Libby Sartain (Woodside, CA) is senior vice president of human resources at Yahoo! and was previously vice president of people at Southwest Airlines, consistently ranked among the best places to work in America. Martha I. Finney (Los Gatos, CA) is a veteran HR journalist, consultant, and author whose books include In the Face of Uncertainty (0-8144-7161-7).