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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

The same is true of employees at Tower Paddle Boards (at least during the summer months) and Collins SBA , a financial advisory firm in Australia. There’s also no scrap, no defects, and no late deliveries to erode financial performance. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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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. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. In part, it’s because we value and reward good management of financial capital.