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Executive Summary: Learning to change
In the context of mass poverty in most developing countries, the critical role of training in furnishing badly needed skills to improve productivity, incomes and equitable access to employment opportunities seems particularly obvious and straightforward.

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SELLING A BUSINESS: Legal Pitfalls
Consider how to structure the sale as early as possible, and take advice from your legal and tax advisers. If your business is run through a limited company, you will need to decide whether to sell the shares of the company or just the assets. A share sale tends to be more complicated since you are selling not only the assets, but the liabilities of the company too.

Brand Revitalization
Building a strong brand takes commitment, time and hard work, but the result is one of the most valuable assets a company can own. That said, not all assets are static, and your brand image is no exception.

Introduction: Human Capital and Economic Development
Health and education are both components of human capital and contributors to human welfare. One index of human welfare, which incorporates income, education and health, shows that Africa’s level of ‘human development’ is the lowest of any region in the world.
Is Your Organization Effectively Deploying the Human Capital It Needs to Compete?
Most organizations understand that effective management and deployment of assets can mean the difference between success and failure. But many organizations fail to consider their most critical asset – human capital. A recent study by McKinsey & Company revealed that “A” performers tend to be 50-100% more productive than “C” performers. Clearly, identifying the “A” performers can enhance an organization’s performance. So, how does an employer identify the “A” performers, and once identified, how does an employer retain them?

Do you Suffer from Sand Castle Management? Take this Litmus test.
With the intellectual economy well upon us, how many corporations do you think still have their heads buried in the proverbial sand castle? Not mine, you say? Don't forget - - competitive advantages of old are no longer the competitive advantages of today. Technology is more easily and quickly duplicated, and by offshore competitors who do it for less. In days gone by (old industrial economy), a company's greatest assets were their physical and natural resources. Today (new intellectual economy), the biggest competitive advantage is a company's human capital. It's no longer the widget, brand image, or some secret formula. No, what makes one company better than another today is the human capital behind these things. In a recent Harris Study, it was noted that nearly 73% of a company's bottom line is tied to its people asset.
Protect Your Business Assets - Know the Rules
Today's litigious and highly complex business arena invites competition and challenge. On the one hand, you want to be able to call upon a talented staff or subcontract talent to help you out when you need it, yet employees mean having valid human resource policies and practices in place and subcontract relationships can require savvy negotiating techniques. How does a self-employed, SOHO or small business owner cover his or her assets without putting their lawyer’s children through college?
6 Habits of Successful Leaders
A company's greatest assets are the employees and the customers; but are you as a leader doing everything to make these assets feel valued? A company is a reflection of the leader. It is easy to figure out what it happening at the top based on what you see happening on other levels of an organization. Here are 6 ways to be more effective as a leader and a daily tip to improve your service.
Merger Miseries Four Do Do Diligence
Due diligence is a process used in mergers and acquisitions to reduce the potential for surprises or miscalculations in purchase price. The process is more of an art than a science. One observation I have made is that there is heavy emphasis on the tangible assets like buildings and inventory. Less emphasis is typically placed on the critical human resources assets. I believe that is a mistake. This article explains why and suggests an alternative.

The Question of Accountability
Human Capital is the only asset that has the potential to appreciate in value whereas most assets depreciate over time. There two key groups that impact the value of your people and both must be business savvy in order to understand how to leverage this asset for the best results possible. They are Managers and Human Resource Professionals.
Leaders Inspire by Example
It's when times are toughest that everyone most clearly sees authentic leadership. This is when much-repeated claims like "our people are our most important assets" ("leaderspeak") are proven true, or just so much hollow rhetoric. How managers handle economic downturns and sudden cost-reduction pressures, for example, speaks volumes about their leadership - or lack thereof. If an organization has strong leaders who truly care about people and want to build long-term trust, layoffs are always the very last, desperate step. Such leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. They don't look at people within the organization as "heads," "FTEs (Full Time Equivalents)," "warm bodies," or faceless "human resources" to be acquired and disposed of like assets on a balance sheet.
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