I transitioned into a human capital focus gradually over my career. My collected experiences just overwhelmingly led me to realize without …
When a small business should fear growth
Your small business does not have the culture to succeed as a big business.
Initial ad hoc procedures may prove to drive those early revenues and perhaps the same procedures can manage a firm’s expansion to 30 employees, 75 employees, or 100 employees.
As the growth of a firm increases the amount of interactions and the dynamics of each interaction become more important. Repeatability, scalability, and human capital strategies are vital to have in place before growth.
With a Competing Values Framework your current culture and future culture present present your roadmap for intentional growth.
Discounted risk is human capital risk
Many private equity and venture capital firms claim to rely on the quality of a team to determine funding. But rarely …
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 …
Human capital risk, now that’s real risk
You commonly hear an equity firm or venture capital partner claim to invest in the people. Well, when it comes to costs, …
All hail the solution to the micromanager
Micromanagers grind work to halt and wastes resources, requisite organization is framework that looks at strategy with time as a critical element for how work is assigned, done, and managed. Requisite organization, or requisite uncertainty, is a great way to empower employees, maximize resources, and modify micromanagers.
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy
There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number …
Human capital assessments — the symptom or the disease
The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often …
Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital
This was originally posted in the nowEurope, where I post as a contributor. nowEurope reported on technology innovation in Central Europe Centrope …
Human capital portfolio management and simple math
A venture’s viability really comes down to a bet on a team to deliver.  It is the interpersonal process where venture performance …
Risk is an unnecessary (p)art of the deal
To identify where risk is a real part of the investment deal you will commonly hear an equity firm or VC …
The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on …