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Budgeting for Work that Shouldn't Exist (opens the original)
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Budget season is open, and the headcount template has arrived in your inbox looking exactly like last year's. Rows of roles, columns of quarters, a baseline equal to current state, and a variance you will be asked to justify. Plus two backfills, minus the attrition assumption, hold the line on contractors.Every number in that template answers the question "how many." Not one cell asks "of what."The template deserves a moment of respect before what follows. Headcount budgeting exists because payr
How to Become a Professional Idiot (opens the original)
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You are eleven minutes into the steering committee when you realize you do not know what a "composable margin architecture" is.You look around the table. Nine senior leaders. Everyone is nodding. Two people are taking notes. One of them writes "composable" and underlines it twice, which you will later learn is what he does with words he also does not understand.You have been in rooms like this for nineteen years. You have a system. The system is: nod slowly, narrow your eyes slightly to signal a
Your Risk Register is Missing Four People (opens the original)
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Before we start, I can’t send you something on this anniversary without first taking a moment together.Twenty-five years ago, like many of you, my world changed. I was at breakfast in my Portland hotel when the first tower was hit. The business travelers around me caught the cut-in from CNN, and our plates stayed full as we set down our forks together. Most of us were flying out that morning. I was headed home to Atlanta to see my two-year-old and my seven-week-old. Not long after, the second to
This Year's Plan Will Fail in the Appendix (opens the original)
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Planning season opens this month, and every leadership team entering it is asking some version of the same question: are the targets right? Revenue growth, margin expansion, the capital plan. Weeks of modeling will go into making the numbers defensible.That is the wrong question to spend September on. The question that will actually decide next year is … Read more
The CHRO Playbook Starts in the Wrong Place (opens the original)
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A new CHRO's first ninety days come pre-loaded with advice, and nearly all of it points inward: meet the HR team, assess the function, audit the programs, fix the broken processes. Listen tours through the department you now own.Run that plan faithfully and you will emerge in month four as the well-informed leader of a support function, which is the ceiling the plan was quietly built to produce.The inward-first instinct has an honest logic. The HR function is what you visibly control, its proble
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