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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. My beef is with the way the particular corporation’s guiding principle is expressed; it is generally verbose, convoluted and incapable of resonating with employees or inspiring them.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has come in the form of the swarms of “apps” sold to individual departments to solve scheduling and care-coordination problems and to “bond” with “consumers.” To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. As the U.S.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men.