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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. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Monitor it.

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Fulfilling the Promise of AI Requires Rethinking the Nature of Work Itself

Harvard Business

This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Millions today are already freely committing billions of hours, across distant locations, to co-creating products and services they care about. Why wouldn’t they do the same for their own future? Rethink your efficiency conversations.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business

Third, they’re focused on optimizing what I’ll call the human capital balance sheet, making sure their workforce dollars are creating the right kind of impact in the way that their workforce is showing up day in and day out in the workplace. And to Michael’s point, how does HR partner with the business?