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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

I also heard it in an amazing dinner session led by Daniel Goleman (father of the concept of " Emotional Intelligence ") that probed the attributes that great leaders in the future would need to be successful in complex organizations. We just completed a multi-year study of the root causes of enduring success.

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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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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. For instance, intelligent failures can add more value than predictable successes, and low-cost experimentation trumps analysis. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.