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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Human Resource Champions (1996). Ulrich has since gone on to author many best sellers including The HR Scorecard and The HR Value Proposition , but Human Resource Champions remains an ever popular classic in the field of HR. By Patrick M. By David Ulrich.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

Which, of course, negatively impacts performance. Rasmus has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development & Adult Learning and degrees in Philosophy and Human Resources. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002. Franklin Covey, “FranklinCovey Global Time Matrix™ Survey,” 2011.

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?How to Make Diversity and Inclusion Real?

Harvard Business Review

Serendipitously, the day after I learned of his condition, a member of Campbell's OPEN network (our human resources network — a.k.a In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. A few years ago, my best friend, who is gay, contracted stomach cancer. Confront the brutal facts. ?

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Six Things Your Company Has in Common with the Oakland A's

Harvard Business Review

Of course, Moneyball isn't just a baseball movie; it's Michael Lewis's account of the transformation of an industry by analytical decision-making. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. It's not surprising that it made over $20M —the best opening weekend ever for a baseball movie.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Yahoo had failed at first too, of course. internet company in China.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes. So what, if those predictions are right?