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Lafley’s P&G Brand Cull and the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

The demands of 80/20 criteria shifts the innovation emphasis away from more traditional financial metrics around DCF , IRR , and NPV and toward better understanding of how novelty preserves, protects, and extends the 80/20 franchise. Does this mean that the people and processes outside that Pareto core will be minimized and marginalized?

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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. Teams of financial planning and analysis professionals measure actual and expected results for financial capital. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it. Monitor it.

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Connecting To Happiness: A Single Model For Leadership Excellence

Terry Starbucker

In this case, the answers were (generally) taking pride in the work, serving customers, and being part of a great team. The goal is a high IRR, and the resulting Cause is “ meaningfully increasing shareholder value”. Next, the goals of the business are transformed to a cause that “bridges” with the Work and the WMTH. happiness).

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