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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. Based on our research , inspired employees are three times more productive than dissatisfied employees, but they are rare. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Measure it.

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

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%.

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success. Sales Pipeline Discipline and Time Management We know from sales strategy feedback that sales success is about sales activity and sales focus.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. That means everyone needs to understand what managers care about and want: more net income. And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more.

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Two-Week Price Inflation in Argentina hits 30%, US Products Lead the Way; Currency Devaluations Hit P&G Earnings

MishTalk

A tour of various supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires, found escalating inflation is much higher in stock products, perfumery and milk. certain P&G products — are exchanged. bolivare-per-USD rate, thus the near-$300 million charge P&G now expects to incur on its third quarter balance sheet. is now $13.55.

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency. I see many organizations succeed better when the less the manager knows, the better the team works. That's because the managers don't explain: Why this product.

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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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