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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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How to Work Confidently with Numbers People

Harvard Business Review

“You need to have a sound baseline understanding of business analysis—including the four families of financial ratios and tools for calculating return on investment.” ” Davenport highly recommends also getting a solid grasp on the basics of regression analysis. That’s too many.