Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Through true stories and simple yet profound guidance and tools, The Outward Mindset enables individuals and organizations to make the one change that most dramatically improves performance, sparks collaboration, and accelerates innovation—a shift to an outward mindset. He includes many examples from the organizations he has served.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Organizations which thrive on customer transactions to generate revenues rely on data automation software to preserve their data integrity.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Entrepreneurs who handle their personal finances this way are prone to carry the same habits over into their business planning. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Instead of contracting multiple external resources, organizations employ one automation tool to perform an unlimited number activities. EnableSoft ‘s Foxtrot application is one example of an RPA software that enables organizations to perform internal application integration, risk management, and even data analytics.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. Organization predicts and stays ahead of trends.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Similarly, you can set goals in areas such as your personal finances, health, relationships, and spiritual development. an organization that professionally trains achievement-minded individuals and employee groups on the art and science of selling. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Leads groups. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. The Front National in France.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

There are times when a younger family member may be in charge of a particular project or aspect of the business, however, respect for family hierarchies within the organization must be maintained. HAVING ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ REGARDING PERSONAL VS. BUSINESS FINANCES. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Half of Americans continue to work when they reach their mid-sixties, and, according to a 2015 Gallup survey, full-time American employees work an average of 47 hours a week. Working at an organization with a clear sense of purpose? We spend most of our adult waking hours working. Is it fair pay and benefits? Having a great boss?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation capacity is the organization’s potential for innovation. This is the stuff that’s easy to buy, and that organizations tend to spend too much on: assets and resources. People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

According to the World Trade Organization, international trade this year will grow at its slowest pace since 2007. In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It is the skillful combination of emotion and logic, people and process, free-thinking and organization. While the study results provided detailed insights about sales organization trends , it also yielded a wide range of statistics that reflect the strategies sales leaders are employing to overcome their top challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As more evidence shows that leadership skills and management practices positively influence both patient and healthcare organization outcomes, it’s becoming clear that leadership training should be formally integrated into medical and residency training curricula. A second, separate set of necessary skills deals with systems literacy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Next, the organizations looked outside for models that showed evidence of results in related fields.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is significant — there were 6,822 claims of sexual harassment in 2015. Indeed, a 2015 survey showed that 71% of women do not report sexual harassment, and far fewer bystanders report harassment that they have witnessed. Why do so few victims and observers report sexual harassment?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. In a study conducted with Google Europe , Roland Berger assessed the digital maturity of French companies, looking into three distinct dimensions: equipment, practices and uses, and organization and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Typically, teams in the field are well aware of the digital threats and opportunities within their area of the organization – usually more so than the corporate center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The only practical way to make value-based care a reality is for health care organizations to bring physicians back into the decision-making process. And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. But physicians have been slow to embrace these for a host of reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Most people who work for an organization are employees under federal and state statutes. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. of the companies raised a significant round of financing within a year of graduating from a program, with an average raise of $1.5 Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management' First and foremost is the emergence of many new programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. Make sure those goals line up with the organization’s strategic priorities. As you move up in the organization, the scope of your budget will broaden. Finance Basics (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Financial challenges. What’s next?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Laura Schneider for HBR. The failures continue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

None responded that their organization was “proactively looking” for startups that offer performance-improving investment technologies, despite the fact that 76% of them anticipate startups will deliver the next major “invest-tech” innovations. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. With world-renowned food and live music scenes, New Orleans is a city of rhythms and rituals, all organized around a unique cultural calendar. to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

After all, in some ways, the situations were similar: A group whose members may not have worked together before must form a close-knit team quickly and execute their duties in a way that meets the organization’s guidelines to the letter. We sometimes act as if health care organizations are big machines. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

It involved signing up over 30 large employers, civic organizations, and specialized labor and ethnic organizations. In the P3 model, private financing fills holes in public budgets, and profit-oriented engineers and builders find efficiencies while government officials ensure that the public is well served.

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