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Worried About Cash Flow? Change Your Mindset

Chad Barr

Unfortunately, and too often, I hear clients and colleagues worry about their cash flow and where the next piece of business and project may come from. © Chad Barr 2012. The post Worried About Cash Flow? The solution to this situation requires a serious mindset shift. That’s it! As simple as that!

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

As good as the articles were when they were written, by the time this book came out in 2012 the consulting world had already adopted pretty much everything Henderson was talking about. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. It’s a tasty deal (ahem, read), I’d say.

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It’s Not a Sales Problem You Have But a Marketing Problem!

Chad Barr

So next time you are worrying about revenues and cash flow, I’d suggest you look at your marketing plan and in the event you don’t have one, I recommend you create one immediately. © Chad Barr 2012. Question for you: What do you find to be an effective marketing plan? Leave your comment here. . All rights reserved.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. 2012-11-03: Capital Account. 2012-10-10: Capital Account.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

They were associated with nearly 2,400 publicly traded firms in the S&P 1500 from 1992 to 2012. This is perhaps because in low-litigation industries the benefits of less litigation are offset by lawyer CEOs’ overly cautious firm policies, which can negatively affect cash flows and growth. More Litigation, or Less?

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. From 2012 to 2014 we set up research sites in 10 communities across the country. households.