Linking Business and HR Strategy
Human Capital Keeps Top Spot in The Conference Board’s 2014 CEO Challenges Report
January 15th, 2014
In a previous blog post, I gave some highlights from The Conference Board’s 2013 CEO Challenges report showing that “Human Capital” and other people-centric issues dominate the list of CEOs’ top challenges and strategies.
So of course I was interested to see the results of the 2014 CEO Challenges study. I haven’t seen the full report […]
MUST READ! The Importance of a Winning Culture—and How to Create One
January 8th, 2014
A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation.
Culture is one of those topics that is easy to be baffled by, to put into the “nice to have” column. That’s understandable, as long as you subscribe to the notion of culture as “soft” and therefore […]
Silicon Valley Says ‘People Don’t Scale,’ But Even Tech Companies Can’t Grow Without Them
December 11th, 2013
I loved reading the article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal titled, “Real-Estate Firm Gets Cold Shoulder in Silicon Valley: How Online Company Is Overcoming Tech VCs ‘People Problem,’” which describes venture capitalists’ reactions to the fundraising pitch of Glenn Kelman, CEO of online real estate firm Redfin:
“To tech investors, companies that […]
Clients Say the Most Amazing Things: In a Non-Profit, You Now Have to Compete with “Free”
December 4th, 2013
From time to time, TPO posts first-hand C-Level business perspectives, excerpted from an ongoing series of conversations we have with our clients. This one is from the President of a medical professional association:
I haven’t seen it in our organization, but definitely other organizations where people have fewer resources to deal with because the […]
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