At the 2011 SHRM national conference, former SHRM President Susan Meisinger chaired a session entitled, “10 Things Your CEO Will Never Tell You but HR Needs to Know.” Why wouldn’t a CEO be compelled to tell the head of HR what they tell others who sit around the table? Why, why, why?
The core issue seems to be one of HR having both a longstanding identity problem and a fairly widespread public relations problem.
"That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain” –Hamlet.