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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

While challenging, this process brought a discipline into Neustar that has served as the foundation for a heightened focus on our employee experience – a formal and regimented change management process. Several key programs, co-created by management and employees, have set the tone and course for how we have navigated Neustar’s evolution.

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Venture Capitalists Are Looking for Failures

Women on Business

If you commit to working incredibly hard, day and night, to get your business off the ground or move your career forward and it doesn’t work – it is also a failure (and perhaps a blow to your ego after pouring your heart and soul into your failed initiative). But I know the key now is to manage for failures.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources. On the other hand, it can be difficult to persuade resource owners to commit to a venture when risk is still high.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Mobilizing resources.