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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Gather Ye Sugar Plums While Ye May; Your Personal Discretionary Budget will be Impacted by Washington

Strategy Driven

But ‘tis the season for budgeting for the New Year as well. Unless otherwise averted, your Christmas/Holiday or otherwise discretionary budget will fade next year to infinity and beyond. You are about to experience a change to your budget that will affect your lifestyle. Spend well this Christmas/Holiday Season and be merry.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Several years ago, we realized that specialized positioning and communications are necessary for social harmony and a global economy. It means making the most of the organization that we can.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Quality programs are communications driven and should be captained by public relations counsel who possess this expertise. Research drives most communications programs.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

And if your “competitive advantage” in hiring simply boils down to throwing money at the problem, your hires are quite possibly going to jump ship when a higher offer or benefits package is put in front of them. So how can an organization increase its benefits without increasing its budget?

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Human Resources Oversees Training. Speakers and training budgets are therefore judged upon whimsical comments of individual audience participants.which get harsher when the training is for topics they need, rather than things they would 'prefer' to hear. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer. Next, the researchers analyzed the three types of resources across all 837 movies.

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