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Midsize Companies Shouldn’t Confuse Growth with Scaling

Harvard Business

Most management writing focuses on startups or large companies, but if recent performance is any indicator, midcap companies are the place to be. With intensified pressure to keep up, leaders often react to mere symptoms of poorly managed growth, such as widespread conflict or a sense of organizational mayhem.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

This algorithm has been developed since 2008 and has been constantly improved with the input of over 500 consultants working with 15,000+ businesses. Business Owners can Understand For many years, Business Owners and managers have never been able to comprehend the financial implications on issues within a business.