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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.” ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.” ”

Company 53
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A Recession Doesn’t Mean Your Startup Can’t Grow

Harvard Business Review

Seven years after that infamous day in 2008, we are a post-IPO company with a market cap of over $1 billion dollars. These new hires went on to play crucial roles in developing our sales playbook and hiring and developing our next wave of salespeople. A better work ethic. To my surprise, things did not slow down.

Crisis 8
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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

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.