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

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital. Difference-making talent is also scarce.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Tools for each challenge are presented, backed by examples from companies – from small firms to global giants – that have successfully put these methods into practice.