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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Local executives gave presentations to him on a stage in an auditorium setting. All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service.

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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. But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. 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.

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The Benefit of Shared Goals Across Functions

LSA Global

Shared Goals Across Functions Can Help Break Down Functional Silos Traditionally, most employees are organized by expertise, department, or location to pursue isolated and specialized objectives — e.g., sales, marketing, finance, design, production, and so on.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

Assessment presents methods, processes, and procedures that a company can use to self-assess its maturity. . The first dimension present the 10 Knowledge Areas defined in the PMBOK Guide. At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

If Keen is sincere in his belief that gold is not money, then he should find it truly baffling that the US holds more than 8,000 metric tons of gold in reserve. Increasing our stock of productive capital requires a pool of savings. Free market capitalism is about increasing the stock of productive capital over time.

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3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis

LSA Global

First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. The crisis will eventually end.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Geographically Dispersed Workforce Modern organizations need to foster a culture that is shared across geographically dispersed and physically present workers.

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