Human Resources Business Partner: publicity stunt or purposeful rebranding ?
Introduction Why adding up “Business Partner” if “Human Resources” alone make perfect good sense ? And, is adding up “Business
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“I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts” : the customer-supplier “partnership”
Introduction Years ago, the so-called customer-supplier “partnership” started to become fashionable in the automotive industry. This definition has always reminded
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Finance explained to my mother-in-law. Chapter III – Value creation
That CFOs are all boring, bald, eyeglass-wearing pain in the ass is an urban legend. But there is no doubt
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Finance explained to my mother-in-law. Chapter II – Risk and return
If there is an absolute principle in Finance it is that there is no return without risk. “Playing the stock
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I tried interim management for you and here’s what I think
At the threshold of fifty years of age, leaving an open-ended employment contract means leaving the world of big business.
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Urban myths from the business world: the outraged recruiter and the candidate who is no longer interested in the job offer
The self-celebrating post of the outraged recruiter This classic story of the wise recruiter and the villain candidate who, out
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Urban myths from the business world: the “6-seconds test”
“Listen Mr. Vena, I get thousands of resumes every day, if they were all 4 pages long like yours, I’d
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The financing of an inevitable technological transformation – part 2 – The role of Finance
It seems that it was Benjamin Franklin who said that there are only two certainties in the world: death and
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The financing of an inevitable technological transformation – Part One – The Mission
Imagine if in 1969 instead of the Americans the western world would have asked the Italians to go to the
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BIG – Business Game – Second Round. Lessons from bodybuilders that can be learned by playing at being hotel entrepreneurs with a few young apprentice Managers
Quickly restored the hotel, contained costs and refocused on the core business during the first year of the new management
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