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The Secret Button for Getting Your Ideas Approved

Strategy Driven

Ideally the reason it’s exciting is related to a metric or objective that stakeholder cares about. I refer to this component as “the button” – that metric or objective that makes your stakeholder sit up and take notice. The CFO will care about profits. The latter approach is obviously preferable.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital.

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Case Study: The Gentleman's 3

Harvard Business Review

Between the inner and outer doors of Circale Corporation's headquarters building, human resources VP Nils Ekdahl crossed paths with CFO Anita Fierst as he was leaving for lunch. "We It had been designed to ensure the objectivity of decisions about post-merger personnel cuts. But that had helped Ekdahl. He called Milanese.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.