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Jon Acuff Resignation from Dave Ramsey Team Raises Questions

Modern Servant Leader

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. He then went on to explain several motivations that were not behind his decision, including: 1. Friday, September 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM.

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Why We Pay All Our Employees a Commission

Harvard Business Review

However, much of our success is due to our highly unusual compensation strategy that motivates everybody in the business to help the company grow. Consider the advantages of this compensation plan: • Every employee is inherently motivated to help the company focus on creating revenue. • How have we accomplished it?

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. A potential barrier at the board level is that it is often considered improper for directors to become too involved in checking the day-to-day operations of a firm, even if they have the time and will to do so.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

The company has adopted an Amazon-esque strategy; it now owns and operates twelve large warehouses well located to deliver loads of flooring, roofing, and other heavyweight building materials to do-it-yourself homeowners and contractors. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy. Adapted from. We can count on them.