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My guess is that while a poor balancesheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balancesheet that brings on night terrors. What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare? It’s not surprising. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.
This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balancesheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balancesheet. Therefore, the balancesheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.
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Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balancesheet asset for most businesses. For example, in many technology companies software engineers are organized in a leveling structure.
A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balancesheet.
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).
In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.
This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s.
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