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

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

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. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence.

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). Train sales representatives to enter every conversation from the standpoint of providing a solution that meets the customer’s agenda — and timeline — as opposed to their own. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S.

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

ConsultX

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues. Of course, Chicago would also have to meet the other eligibility criteria. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test.

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

In 2016 ADP Total Source, one of the larger PEOs, reported more than 400,000 “worksite” employees [2]. Here’s where the rubber meets the road. Workers Compensation Insurance is – generally – easy coverage to acquire, and many carriers have cash-flow-advantageous methods of collecting premium. The ROI Comparison Rationale.