In the quest to maximize returns to shareholders executive doctrine shifted from stakeholders to shareholders. The Atlantic’s, Justin Fox, calls out shareholder value ideology.
Fast Start — Too Big to Succeed
Fast Start conversation: Big companies can spread fixed costs across a larger base. Big company capability to spread costs means better shareholder, …
Social metrics that matter to your boss
A business case usually relies on numbers. Numbers to justify the investment, numbers to project the return on investment, and numbers …
USA Inc. Mary Meeker’s letter to investors on America’s financial statements
The United States as a for-profit corporation.
Mary Meeker takes an investor relation’s view of a letter to USA Inc. shareholders and presents how investors might position the United States of America as a corporation.
What position will you take going short, going long, or more likely: what’s going on?
Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 1
We make models to get an idea, on a small-scale, of what might happen on a large-scale. Models help identify risk and …
Business as a foreign language for HR professionals
Today in Human Resource Executive Online I eagerly read a post titled Is Business a Foreign Language for HR? (sadly, no …
5 reasons human resources hurt consumer brands
Every person connected to your organization is in sales and marketing. Each interaction anyone connected to your company, your government agency, …
Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for two at the table
Every business function is subordinated to either: sales, finance, or human resources. How can HR possibly have any impact when business is all about sales, brining in the money and finance making the best use of the money?
CSI Music Industry — Part 1: The Crime Scene
First in a series of investigations [more like a cold case, see update below] around the music industry record business death …