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Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. The cost of turnover was too great. And in a competitive marketplace, it cost us dearly.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2015
This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2012
Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 2, 2012
Human resources management. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Research shows that consulting fees foregone are multiplied six-fold in opportunity costs each year that action is put off. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Academic, research.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.
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