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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. If you are early in your career, you may be engaging a lot with recruiters. Compensation.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

If the virus isn’t under control by May 1 st 2021 and the economy hasn’t picked up, do recruiters have plans to push back start dates? If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned. Today, not so much.

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How to adapt your CV to consulting experience

freshminds

Have you worked on quantifiable analytical work, cash flow, balance sheet, P&L etc? Work with your recruiter to make sure you are aware of the specific projects you should be emphasising as they should have insight into what is going to be the most desirable to see from the client’s perspective. Have you sold on work?

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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. That's wrong. It's always been wrong. People are not resources.

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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. The company also looks outward for global management development and recruits and deploys up-and-coming managers abroad. They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies.

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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. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. This tour-of-duty approach helped attract and retain entrepreneurial employees.