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The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance

LSA Global

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. A McKinsey survey of over 1,500 corporate directors revealed that only 36 percent had a complete understanding of their company’s financials. Where to Start.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Similar patterns are observed in the consensus private-sector growth forecasts compiled by the Blue Chip Economic Survey. A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. Thanks to this experience, strategy making at Nikon today has become a process of co-creation with investors.

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Fed Minutes Show Majority Believe "Marginal Efficacy of QE Likely Declining"; Economy Turned the Corner?

MishTalk

Survey evidence suggested that market participants now saw roughly similar probabilities of the first reduction in the pace of asset purchases occurring at the December, January, or March meeting. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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940 Chinese Firms Halt Trading; China Allows Houses as Margin, Bans Use of Term "Equity Disaster"; Two Rules, Two Questions

MishTalk

Key China Actions December 28: Rule tweak gives banks more room to lend January 22: Bank of China taps reverse repos to target demand February 4: Bank of China cuts reserve ration March 8: China announces trillion Yuan local government debt swap March 31: Survey shows average investor in rally did not finish high school April 15: GDP shows "only" 6.5%

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Nifty-Fifty Becomes Fab-Five; Return of the "Four Horseman"; Ozone Layer

MishTalk

CNN recently surveyed 30 technology experts and thousands of readers to come up with what it dubbed the Four Horsemen of tech. GMO's Disclaimer "The chart represents real return forecasts for several asset classes and not for any GMO fund or strategy. Oh, how the technology landscape has changed. Goldman's chief U.S.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.