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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). My coursework was very informative and my research was in exercise physiology where I compared the fitness benefits of snowshoeing versus running.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business

” There are real risks involved in not distributing the workload in an equitable way, says Julie Morgenstern, productivity expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. This exercise also helps you discover any gaps in talent—“You might have 10 outfielders and no one at first base,” says Morgenstern.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business

The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team. ” Customer discovery and user-centered product design skills are paramount. As one respondent said, “Nothing else matters if you are building a product that no one wants.”

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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How Digital Tools and Behavioral Economics Will Save Retirement

Harvard Business

Here, I’ll outline new research and case studies that help us understand digital nudging even more deeply: Case One: The Power of Framing an Email. One project I’m very excited about is being led by the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation, where I am Senior Academic Advisor.

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