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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

If you persist in using “resource” instead of humans, you allow the language of the balance sheet to drive your management decisions. ” Or, “Is there something smaller we could offer the market? They all say something like this: We need resilience in product development and delivery. That's wrong.

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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But when it comes to little-known leaders in their market, Germany has 1,307 “hidden champions,” nine times as many as those two countries combined. Great Britain and France each have more. They pay major attention to the workplace.

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

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Vincent Tsui for HBR.