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Root cause and critical path, that’s organization development

What is organization development? Yes organization development is training and leadership development and coaching and performance management and change management and communications and organization design and competency models and strategic planning and really so much, it is almost more confusing than helpful to really say what organization development is. This challenge spills over when I am [...]

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The 2 most important learning metrics

CEOs care about learning programs.  To gain more executive-level interest, guess what learning and development folks? CEOs want metrics.  The learning metrics you may have collected and reported on might need adjustment to become important to an executive. The organization challenge that leader’s need to recognize is that an organization’s ability to learn and to [...]

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Mergers and acquisitions systems thinking strategies, part 3

Systems thinking strategies for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) provide better integration valuations and post-merger operations.  Organizations are composed of several components that interact with each other while simultaneously act as part of a whole.  Systems theory helps explain dynamic interrelationship of several parts, beyond information technology or back office functions. No matter the motive for [...]

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Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 2

Models attempt to identify the assets that have value.  How to manage those assets.  And how to strategically turn these assets into money.  This is a 2nd, follow-up, post comparing financial models to competency models to evaluate risk. As I mentioned in that post, typical financial models and their build-outs inherently ignore important aspects of [...]

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The VC’s missing formula: human capital discounted cash flow

What valuation models measure human capital ability to meet financial and strategic business goals? What formulas are used to measure human capital contribution to profits? What are the human capital risk factors you justify when you build your financial statements and projections?  Accounting’s assignment of assets and liabilities and financial management’s current or pro forma [...]

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