Bob Sutton from Stanford during ‘Singapore Human Capital Summit – Sep 2009’ came up with the Top 10 list of wrong expectations people and organizations keep from HR. Please click here for the complete blog post. Below is Bob Sutton’s Top 10 List Flawed, Suspect, and Incomplete Assumptions about Managing People 1. HR ought to be all about spotting, hiring, and breeding individual talent (HR could pack a bigger wallop by focusing on teams and networks more). 2. HR should focus on finding, hiring, and developing the very best people ( Bad is stronger than good – about 5 times stronger -- so screening-out, reforming, expelling the very worst people is more crucial to collective performance). 3. Find some great superstars and pay them whatever is necessary to keep them happy… and certainly a lot more than everyone else (The best organizations pay higher than competitors, but have more compressed pay). 4. Competition makes people, teams, and companies stronger (Unless peop...