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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001.

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Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance

Harvard Business

Mihir Desai, professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, argues for re-humanizing finance. He says the practice of finance, with increasing quantification, has lost touch with its foundations. But he says finance can be principled, ethical, even life-affirming. Download this podcast.

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Thinking holistically about integrating ESG across the organization

Brimstone Consulting

Critical is connecting the dots between sustainability risks and opportunities, investor demands, government regulations, finance, and business operations to think holistically about integrating ESG into every company function. Download Case Study Building a Sustainability Business Framework. This is where we come in.

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4 Different Strategy Perspectives to Consider at Your Next Strategy Retreat

LSA Global

During a strategy retreat , it helps to consider four different strategy perspectives: customer, process, finance, and growth. Do employees, products, finances, or customers come first to achieve our vision and mission? Executives should consider questions like: To be successful, what do our finances need to look like?

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How To Position Yourself as a Peer (and Stay Out of the Dreaded "Pair-Of-Hands" Trap)

Consulting Matters

Do you have significant staff group experience, such as from HR, Finance or IT? Download my free workbook "Organizational Consulting 101" for the big picture of what it takes to consult with credibility to the larger organizations. Prior to becoming a consultant, what type of position did you hold? Process leadership (vs.

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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

Further, many key operational mechanisms, such as cash flow, roles and responsibilities, market strategy, financing, inventory management, were not yet in place. While the organization had strong core values and a revitalized product, its retail strategy and brand were underdeveloped.

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Networking 102: It’s Never Been More Important – And It Truly. Does. Work.

Management Consulted

You can download the audio clip right here : Download the MP3 [50+ Minutes | 22 MB]. For people who prefer text, here’s the 22 page PDF : Download the Text Transcript [22 Pages | PDF]. Finance-Specific Networking. What do you think about non-finance work graduate school, then transitioning through an MBA?

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