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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. One way to do this is to measure the cost of meetings. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

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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. If you need resilience in product development, you might need resilience in: How you recruit and hire. How you build products and services that meet the strategic needs.

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