I was stunned to read The Huffington Post‘s headline last week that "Great Companies Don’t Require Good Management." The site was referencing a May 2010 interview with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, picked up by Bloomberg on February 17, 2011, in which the Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he weighed companies’ pricing power more heavily than their [...]
In this new article in The Economist, the chief executive of the Centre for Development and Enterprise argues that results in the People and Planet areas of a triple bottom line focus (Profits, People, Planet) are hard to measure. Therefore, while Ann Bernstein frames her case in an African continental context, she suggests that business [...]
Well before the financial crisis of 2008, companies in manufacturing and many other industries embraced "lean" as a way to conserve cash and resources not needed to create value for the end customer. On our website we’ve explored these practices, specifically the team building and other human capital strategies that have fueled their success. It’s [...]
This new post on the Business Pundit blog caught my attention: Citing data from Wall St. Cheat Sheet, it contains a map of the U.S. showing the scope of business closures in FY 2009. The number of closures are given for states suffering from the highest number of them, including New York, California, Texas, Georgia, [...]
I would imagine that many of you are familiar with recent employee engagement research finding that one of the ill effects of mass layoffs on companies is an increase in top talent who leave or are looking to do so once the economy picks up a bit more. I have shared studies attesting to this [...]
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