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Creating Leadership Trust that Inspires People

Rick Conlow

Products, the balance sheet and customers are the priority. Great companies and managers treat employees as their greatest resource. Great companies and managers treat employees as their greatest resource. Furthermore, it means the management has high expectations and standards. What can you do as a manager?

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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

ON WEDNESDAY November 23rd, an auction of German government bonds (known as “Bunds”) managed to sell only €3.6 Firstly, the German Debt Agency ( Finanzagentur ) normally retains part of any new Bund offer, so a partial sale of Bunds is pretty standard. Management Consulting. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Economics.

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Getting Your Deal Done

Martinka Consulting

I was honored to have IBA team members Gregory Kovsky and Curt Maier contribute a chapter to my latest book, Getting the Deal Done. The book is 61 short chapters, 50 of them written by me and 11 by other deal pros like Gregory and Curt. Have a strong balance sheet. I’ll know it when I see it doesn’t work.

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Profitability Framework

Tom Spencer

The profitability framework can help executives, consultants and entrepreneurs to diagnose and respond to falling prices, declining sales volume, or rising costs. Revenue can come from various sources including advertising and product sales, but is normally thought of as being a function of price per unit and units sold.

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ECB Waters Down 2014 Stress Tests Second Time; Yet Another Sham Stress Test

MishTalk

However, we will penalize banking exposure to bonds contained in the trading book, i.e., those that are available for immediate sale." Another Sham Stress Test As a result of that preposterous trading-book rule, banks will shift 100% of their sovereign bonds to their hold-to-maturity bucket, at least for the duration of the test.

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Monetarists Accuse ECB of "Dangerous Game of Chicken"; The REAL Dangerous Game

MishTalk

The balance sheet of the European Central Bank has fallen by €553bn over the past year as banks repay money that they no longer want, either because ECB funds are too costly in a near-deflationary world or because lenders are being compelled by regulators to shrink their books. They must avoid a rise to $1.40

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “They’re not hard to calculate. Play with numbers.

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