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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

Zweig writes that any form of modified profit isn’t cash flow. There’s now a plethora of Ebitda clone terms including those showing “profit” before things like stock-based pay, marketing, business development, and administrative expenses. Owner “perks” like cell phone, car, travel to conferences, etc. (as Conclusion.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. I always develop specific criteria to measure the success of my recommendations.

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Getting the Deal Done recap

Martinka Consulting

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. Rather than the usual talk about best practices (nothing wrong with those talks) this talk was definitely from the heart, not the head.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. But this only compounded the chaos.

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