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VCs See Gold Rush in the HR Tech Scene

HR Digest

But recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the global human resource (HR) technology market, particularly in North America. HR tech firms are flourishing as venture capitalists’ love affair with standard-setters in HR SaaS offering continue to grow.

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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

Our strategy emphasizes versatility and empowerment in allocating human resources. Sounds like exactly the type of folks we often promote into positions of leadership. Bret blogs about leadership, followership, and social media at his website Positive Organizational Behavior. The Stock and Flow of Human Capital.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. retains its leadership in technological progress. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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