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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people?

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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