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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. But that familiarity carries a steep cost: slow growth, missed targets, attrition, and unfulfilled potential. I call this obstacle The Disconnect. Sales often have no such contribution.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. A recent study by the Harvard Business Review group found that companies that companies that managed their workforce using data and analytics were able to improve their profit by as much as 65 percent. Corporate Innovation.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.