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Connecting To Happiness: A Single Model For Leadership Excellence

Terry Starbucker

This past weekend I co-hosted our annual gathering of 150 business practitioners and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chicago, SOBCon (“SOB” stands for Successful Online Business). In this case, we went from “ Hit budget and greatly improve operating metrics ” (the goal) to “ serve our customers and support each other ” (the Cause).

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. Historically, successful investment of financial capital can make someone’s career. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it. As the adage goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.