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Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are tools. HRIS systems and analytics software are tools. A self-service intranet site for your employees is a tool.

How you use these tools to recruit great employees and help them do amazing things that drive your organization… that’s a strategy.

Tools are great. Tools are really important. But they need to fit into your people strategy, and your people strategy needs to support the organization.

If you practice Renegade HR, you’re an artist. Technology, programs and policies, those are just the paintbrush and paint.

It’s not the tools that count. It’s what you do with them.