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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. Talent Acquisition. The goal of compensation teams is to develop competitive compensation packages to recruit and retain strong talent.

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Small Business Survival Tips During COVID-19

Martinka Consulting

I won’t be disingenuous by marketing services when most of us are in survival mode so I will make all readers of this newsletter an offer: If you have questions about what to do, how to handle things, need a sounding board, or simply someone to vent with call me for free telephone counsel. You want good talent back when this is over.

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Customers are your ‘ace in the hole’ during uncertain times

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Here are a few tips on how to navigate economic headwinds without overcorrecting and damaging valuable relationships. Before the economy shifts too much, now is the time to act carefully and build stronger ties with your customers, who are the most important assets in your balance sheets. Don’t take employees for granted.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Organizational capabilities include talent, structure, and culture. Start with talent. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. People also need to learn how communicating about their own and others’ growth in fact benefits them. Entrepreneurs need to learn that highlighting their own growth attracts talent, investors, and customers.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

I’ve spent many years teaching others how to peer into the future by projecting it. That’s how I’m hardwired. ” But the CFO coach reminded her that being a past-based CFO is a gift and to use that talent wisely. The balance sheet is dull and boring with almost no debt. I can’t.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.