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- - Governance
- 5 min read
What Most Multinationals Misread When They Enter Ghana
Ghana tends to appear in conversations about multinational expansion as the sensible choice. The decision to enter is rarely the difficult part. What follows the decision is where most multinationals encounter a market that does not respond the way their entry model anticipated.
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- Leadership
- 6 min read
Shifting Culture Is the Hardest Thing a Leader Does. Here Is Why That Is Not Your Fault
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from leading change that will not move. Not the exhaustion of hard work, which most leaders are built for. Something quieter than that.
- HR Operations
- 5 min read
Your Strongest People Leave Twice. You Will Only Notice the Second Time
Most businesses know their attrition rate. Very few know their attrition risk. The rate tells you how many people left last year. The risk is the number of people currently employed who are receptive to leaving and have been for some time.
- HR Operations
- 5 min read
Why We Named the Business Strategic & Agile, and What the Market Is Only Now Beginning to Understand
When Strategic & Agile Ltd was founded in 2015, the name raised questions. What did strategy have to do with HR? Was agile not a software term?
- HR Operations
- 4 min read
Outsourcing HR: Is the Right Answer Asked Too Late or Too Early?
The decision to outsource an HR function tends to arrive twice. The first time, it arrives before the business genuinely needs it. The second time, it arrives after the cost of not deciding has already accumulated.
- Growth
- 6 min read
The Instincts That Built Your Business Were Never Meant to Scale It
The founder who builds a company from ten employees to a hundred is doing fundamentally different work from the one who built it from zero to ten. The problem is, they rarely know it.
- Growth
- 5 min read
What Compliance Failure Actually Costs Is Rarely What Businesses Anticipate
When employment compliance becomes a problem, the conversation it generates is almost always about the fine. It is also, in most cases, about the smallest part of the cost.
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