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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions. Some of these strategies include: Use Free Lunch Productively: Forbes reported on a study of 1000 workers nationwide within workplaces offering free meals (Cording, 2022).

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

The headline call was and remains that Germany will be close to recession by Q4-2014 or Q1-2015 setting up a desperate ECB and a Europe once again close to zero growth instead of the “escape velocity” everyone and their dog promised you and me in December and January. The US average GDP the last five years has been 2.0%.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Axial – 66% of businesses with employees are owned by baby boomers (2015). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? Their average age of retirement is 67. Ten-year amortization.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Not only has there been zero bounce, but next year''s expectations continue to be downgraded with 65% of all estimate changes to 2015 currently coming through as downgrades. If so (i.e.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Notable successes emerged in 2015, showing that value creation is possible and signaling important opportunities for many companies in the years ahead. Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment.

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Getting the Deal Done recap

Martinka Consulting

On November 17, 2015 we held our eighth Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference at the Bellevue Club (with co-sponsors PRK Law, Meridian Capital, Columbia Bank, Bashey Hutchinson & Walter, CPAs, and “Partner” On-Call/Martinka Consulting). Over 140 people heard our featured speaker, Joe Whinney, founder of Theo Chocolate.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. To be financially sustainable, hospitals and health systems must revamp their strategies and insist that their investments in new payment models and physician employees generate solid returns.

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