Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. On the other hand, a cash-flow, profitable business doesn’t need to worry about what private investors think. Credit card debt is an invisible burden, until it’s not. Ignoring the changes in our climate makes our days easier, but not our years.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

To determine an eNPS score, employees are surveyed for their input and rating on a series of company culture related questions. There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow.” Jack Welch.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Financial Management and Resource Allocation: Business consultants offer insights into financial management, helping companies optimize their financial resources, manage cash flow effectively, and make informed investment decisions.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Their expertise aids in maximizing profitability, enhancing cash flow management, and ensuring financial stability in the face of economic fluctuations. Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement: Identifying inefficiencies and streamlining operational processes are critical for businesses to enhance productivity and reduce costs.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Financial Management : Managing budgets, cash flow, and financial performance to ensure sustainability. Talent Management : Offering guidance on recruitment strategies, talent retention, and workforce development, while also assisting in creating a positive workplace culture that fosters innovation and productivity.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 23, 2013

Increasing production tends to lead to higher cash flows, and managers who were previously focused on production, innovation and bottom line results start to shift their focus towards turf battles and extreme careerism. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2018

Implementable enough: Can your strategy be fully implemented in your unique workplace culture and industry? An Example – A Strategic Objective to Increase Cash Flow. Let’s take an example of a strategic initiative to increase cash flow. Is the concept of cash flow crystal clear to all employees?

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Financial Management : Budgeting, financial forecasting, securing funding or investments, and managing cash flow. Consultants assist in recruitment, talent development, and creating a positive workplace culture that fosters innovation and productivity.

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Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 9, 2023

Consultants provide expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, cash flow management, and profitability assessment. By fostering a positive work culture and investing in employee development, small businesses can attract and retain top talent, improving overall productivity and customer satisfaction.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 15, 2020

If you don't manage your cash flow, a lack of cash will kill your business. Your policies create your culture. Your policies create and refine your actual culture. I keep encountering policies that prevent people from delivering the outcomes the organization wants. Worse, the policies destroy trust.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Money Policies to Manage Cash Flow. What culture do you want? Yes, that's still a policy, but no one signs off, and, so far, the teams can deploy during that time. The managers created friction, which resulted in problems. Now, the teams have a reasonable constraint. What about guidelines? What friction do you have?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

In many cultures, owning gold is still considered a status symbol of affluence and good fortune. This approach seeks to benefit from the large free cash flows that successful gold mining companies are likely to generate during a gold bull market. Reading Time: 4 minutes. This approach offers a hedge against inflation.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

These folks have to manage the organization's cash flow. Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1. While every senior management team differs, here are ways I've found to influence them, with quantitative and qualitative data: Explain the economic impact of any change. Want Business Agility?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2018

There are three main valuation methods you can use to estimate the value of the company: Discounted Cash Flow , Comparable Companies , and. Non-financial issues include cultural and organizational fit, and regulatory fit. Figure 3, Cultural and Organisational Fit. Comparable Transactions.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fifth Avenue in New York seems like an epicenter of commerce, but long-term leases and the need for millions and millions of dollars in free cash flow mean that there are actually very few degrees of freedom and not much choice. Geography makes the idea of a free market difficult, because only one business can exist in any given spot.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting. How you handle the cultural integration makes a huge difference. And you will be taking on debt, but this debt comes with good things like customers, good margins, cash flow, etc.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

The governing objective is the cornerstone upon which the organization builds its culture, communications, and choices about how it allocates capital. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In other words, you can’t just pull a number from air and say, “I’ll pay X times EBITDA (or free cash flow, aka profit) for a business. Other non-financial factors including how the lease can derail an exit plan, managing the culture, key employee compensation and the dependency of the owner to the business.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 3, 2017

Richard but in a sales system and culture, which attracted customers and high-quality employees. You trade your capital for immediate cash flow, i.e. you get a paycheck on payday just like everybody else. Bill saw who he could immediately add value by turning the website from a brochure to an ordering system.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

On top of evaluating financial capabilities, financial consultants tackle questions regarding financial reporting procedures, techniques for improving cash flow, tax-related questions, and risk management. You may also be involved in transforming company culture and other core systems/processes that relate to the HR team.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration? This leads to poor visibility, inefficient processes, and, worst of all, inaccurate data. Bad data, in turn, leads to inaccurate timelines, estimates, budgets.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Corporate culture. Compensation structure.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high. Your accountant or CFO can help and depending on the size of the deal you may want a quality of earnings report, which is a fancy name for a mini-audit and proof of cash (flow). Yep, the seller. Show you can attract and retain good people.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. Both strategies, however, create cultural incompatibility within the organization.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Don’t be afraid to look at the “business” or “hard” data, at least to understand the cash situation of the organization. Get help to do that if you aren’t comfortable with cash flows. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Librarys Blogs. Boards of Directors. Building a Business.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. “Ask about the corporate culture,” she says. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. This is especially difficult when clients don’t pay you on time. Don’t: Work informally.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

Such mindsets become further embedded in systems, structures, processes, and cultures that are self-perpetuating. A company’s past is often deeply rooted in its culture, comprising habitual processes, rituals, and belief systems. That’s why forgetting the past can require shocking the culture out of its torpor.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Michelin is a huge company in a relatively mature industry, but it has still managed to nearly double its free cash flow since 2015, to €1.509 billion ($1.75 billion) in 2017 compared to €833 million in 2015. In 2018, Michelin was ranked the #1 America’s Best Large Employer.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The design and user experience aspect is especially out of sync with bank culture, and many banks struggle with internal resistance. In these options, the critical question is whether the bank wants to keep its own underwriting criteria or use new algorithms developed by its digital partner.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s an investment in future cash flows, but it can be fraught, because, unlike a car, you can’t take a company for a test drive, and they usually need more than a periodic tune-up and charging station visit. Companies usually start and end with their founders.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. QE has no ability to improve that situation. 2011-12-29: Max Keiser.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Here are some other datapoints to consider: Between 2006 and 2010, the top 100 sustainable global companies experienced significantly higher mean sales growth, return on assets, profit before taxation, and cash flows from operations in some sectors compared to control companies.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

At the time, I remember building a financial model of what my life insurance policy death benefit could produce in monthly cash flow with reasonable assumptions for inflation and rate of return. I remember looking at the output page of the model and the final cell… monthly cash flow. I stared at the screen.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Invest in building a culture of membership. By changing each piece of your business model to focus on maintaining a long-term relationship rather than on quick acquisition of new customers, you can enjoy higher profitability, more predictable cash flow and customers who are your ambassadors. Subscription is a pricing structure.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

You and your founding team used to feel like members of the same small tribe; now you’re working with unfamiliar layers of staff hired from companies whose culture is not like yours. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia.

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