Archive for October 2013

Intangible Capital Is The Real Capital

Prescient Strategists had the opportunity to attend the AM&AA conference this past July. We had a great time, met lots of great people and heard lots of great things taking shape in the world of mergers and acquisitions. If there was one thing that stood out most clearly to us, it was the industry’s new […]

Failure As An Innovation Strategy

Failure may be the world’s greatest teacher, but in the corporate world, I’ve seen very little evidence of us paying much heed to it. We hear industry titans talk about failing all of the time. We hear them tell us that taking those early risks paid off in ways unimaginable. But interestingly, in most corporate […]

How HR Earns A Seat At The Table

It feels like human resources has been trying for so long to be legitimized, that they have overlooked some of their core strengths of what they could do for the business. This isn’t about the tactical or the strategic arms of HR, it’s about both. Both are relevant to the business, albeit in different ways […]

The Employee Feedback Loop

Culture may be set from the top, but it’s lived from the bottom up. It’s the experience of the employees’ day in and day out that create how the culture lives, thrives or dies in an organization. We’ve talked in the past about the formal and the informal distinction of any organizational culture. The formal […]