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In my five years as Executive Editor, I became committed not just to "get the journal out" (a darn important first-year objective!), but also to seek and publish content that would help move the human resources profession in positive directions. Along the way, I had a chance to interact with some of the great thought leaders in HR and realized some common themes should be called out. The first article is my attempt to put a "past, present, and future" context to the changing nature of HR and to elevate our profession. It is entitled "The Evolution of HR: Developing HR as an Internal Consulting Organization." Three of our editors and review board members, as well as Ed Lawler and John Boudreau, reviewed it, and I appreciate all of their valuable insights and edits.

The "future" direction described in the article came to me after years spent with professional services organizations (Compaq, as we integrated Digital; HP, as we integrated Compaq). In all these companies, the service component had the largest number of people, and was viewed as the key to going deeper and broader with our customers....

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