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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. Consider the case of one B2B supplier that wanted to figure out what made some salespeople top performers. Many big data tools, such as Microsoft Workplace Analytics, can provide detailed reviews of how we use time.