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WHOA.
Yes- Microsoft laid off 6,000 people BUT... they dropped a pretty brutal new policy overhaul:
-2-year rehire ban for anyone pushed out over performance
-A new “good attrition” metric (yes, they track if they’re happy you’re gone)
PLUS... you have 5 days to choose:
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financial analysts have a better intuition for the value of resources than for processes.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
The latter is particularly important for high-growth businesses.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
believes one explanation for the high women-to-profit ratio may be that the high-performing firms do well because their top executives make smart decisions.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
"50% of executive hires at high-growth companies fail"
Erik Torenberg • Emil Michael (ex CBO at Uber)
Identify subcultures that may account for higher or lower group performance
Michael E. Porter • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
relationship of earnings and stock prices—the correlation’s very low.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
In an ideal world, corporate executives would allocate capital to maximize long-term value per share. But, for reasons that are mostly understandable, there’s a lot of evidence that they fall short of this objective
Dan Callahan • Capital Allocation
that the average return from a