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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. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. How can we manage human capital better?

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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Ignore the Balance Sheet at Your Own Risk

Martinka Consulting

The president was a very experienced and very good operator but somewhat new to the deal process. He told me something that’s stuck with me when he said how as an operator he was concerned with the profit and loss statement but as a deal person he found an appreciation for the balance sheet and its importance.

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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. The understandable growth of risk management functions and their ascendancy in influencing strategy is important, but only part of the story here.

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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. Within HR management, there are three main functions to be aware of. Breaking into Human Resources Management. Compensation.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. Advancements in control technology have unlocked the ability to monitor, manage, and control LEDs remotely, which is a critical (and until now missing) element in enabling an as-a-service contract.

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ECB Now a Hedge Fund; €1T Bazooka; ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade; Draghi Has it Backwards

MishTalk

Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. You have the TLTROs which are going to unfold over several operations over two years initially, then two more years. Please consider an ECB Press Conference Q&A (not available when I commented yesterday).