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How to Choose Your Management Role for Most Effective and Efficient Work

Johanna Rothman

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? The people with the least organizational knowledge make strategy decisions. Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Individual efficiency is a red herring. That's a false economy.

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email!

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Best Business Books 2017: Strategy

Strategy+Business

This year's best business books on strategy focus to different degrees on the importance and practice of innovation, Ken Favaro writes. In The Net and the Butterfly, Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack investigate the neuroscience behind innovation and lay out a detailed road map for how executives can link its power to strategy.

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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Profitability ratios Net interest margin (NIM) Efficiency ratio Return on assets (ROA) Fee income to total income Return on equity (ROE) Dividend payout ratio Total shareholder return (TSR) 1.1 All else being equal, a higher ROA is better as it indicates stronger profitability and more efficient asset utilization.

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Finding the Time to Write a Book

Women in Consulting

. :: Thinking of writing a book? Writing a book can transform a career, opening up new possibilities and expanding your reach. By the time you’ve accumulated the wisdom to share in a book, you’re often busy doing whatever you’re good at. Unless you plan to pen a post-career memoir, you may not feel you have time to write a book.

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Calendar or Chaos? The Surprising Truth Behind Content Success

Chad Barr

Effective Time Management : It allows for efficient planning and scheduling, minimizing distractions and procrastination. Data-Driven Adjustments : Analyzing the effectiveness of content and marketing strategies informs necessary adjustments to the calendar. link] What’s Your Content Schedule? The post Calendar or Chaos?

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I Don’t Have Time for That…

Chad Barr

Overcoming This Misguided Mindset: Here are several pragmatic strategies to ensure time doesn’t become a barricade in achieving your significant projects, goals, or dreams: Finding Pockets of Time: Identify and utilize small, often overlooked time slots in your daily routine to dedicate to your goals.

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