Rod Burkert

JUNE 3, 2020

And if we have plans to grow our practices based on hourly billing, we must balance the problem of finding and compensating top talent and having the demand for hours to bill. Rather, we are an investment that creates an asset on their balance sheets. You know what I mean. In real life.

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Balance Sheet Talent Productivity Strategy 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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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Data Strategy Strategy Strategy& 36

Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

” 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. It’s one of those balance sheets that lacks drama. “Your 80% is another person’s 100%. Never forget it.” But Bill loves it.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Financial Report 45

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

Ethics 52

Ethics Balance Sheet System Productivity 52

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets. The American icon had the talent, the money, and even the foresight to make the transition. Approach new growth with appropriate humility.

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Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Just ask the executives at Uber, Twitter, Fitbit, and Snapchat.)

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Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

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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Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 53

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Entrepreneurs need to learn that highlighting their own growth attracts talent, investors, and customers. Mayors and other public officials need to learn that communicating growth helps make their cities more attractive to businesses and investors and helps them to compete with megacities for talent.

Training 28

Training Training Banking Balance Sheet 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

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.

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Benchmarking Company Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 36

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 The most productive companies have the talent they need to generate good growth options.

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Cash Flow Financial Balance Sheet Bain 49

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Successfully reimagining the work of the future– the who, where, and how of what gets done – can only happen if you truly view talent as an essential ingredient in competitive advantage, not just as a cost.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Efficiency Agile Financial 28

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. The rewards for shareholders were obvious: M&A and post-merger integration programs are not innate talents; mastery is only acquired by doing them over and over again.

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Research Balance Sheet Industry Sales 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s also untrue because the requirement for more capital is about how banks fund their balance sheets, not the size of the balance sheet. ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion.

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Banking Financial Balance Sheet System 28