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Saying Good Bye To Great Women

Women's Leadership Exchange

Thank you to Beth Polish, a business leader and innovator, for bringing to my attention a news item (NY Times) on New Year's Eve about the passing of author Rona Jaffe. Many of us had the opportunity to meet Rona, when she surprised us by attending a WLE Business Spa Retreat in Puerto Rico. Well, she was.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite. A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. Historically, successful investment of financial capital can make someone’s career. Difference-making talent is also scarce.