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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. Our strategy reflects a high level of flexibility in managing political, economic, and financial risks. Strategic choice is shaped between the ears of the CEO, and the CEO’s strategic choices either enhance or inhibit strategic flexibility.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalist Bruce Gibney explains it this way: “Jobs may not seem like ‘existential’ problems, but they are: When people cannot support themselves with work at all — let alone with work they find meaningful — they clamor for sharp changes. How many more days will I be employed here?”

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in.

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The Business Investments That Freak People Out

Harvard Business Review

And if we go back to the labor discussion, a company could certainly fill its offices with some bodies “for less,” as Furchtgott-Roth suggests, but is that the right metric for success in human resources? Of course, every business investment should face scrutiny. And that’s fair.

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What if a Company Maximized Jobs Over Profits?

Harvard Business Review

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” Entrepreneurship Human resources Social enterprise' What they really mean is, “Can you grow without having to hire people?”. In our digital economy, value creation and job creation don’t always go together.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. There are two areas in particular that I think need greater attention from the innovation community: The human side of innovation must be addressed. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.