Why we still hate HR—and 100 business leaders on how to fix it

Earlier this month, a senior executive at a global company shared a story to give me a sense of how people feel about human resources in corporate America these days. They were planning a dinner party “and someone came running into my office and said, ‘Why are you inviting the head of HR? The whole vibe’s gonna go away.’ And I was like, what are we going to be doing so wrong that HR can’t be in the room?” Although this anecdote could be read as being about one buzzkill, or even the entire HR...