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How to Simplify Your Business’s Finances

Strategy Driven

It might sometimes feel as if your business needs to choose between keeping its customers happy or enjoying healthier finances. A few new tactics and tools could provide the solution you have been looking for, so keep reading to find out how to simplify your business’s finances. Set Financial Goals to Increase Your Revenue.

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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Author James Clear emphasizes a beginner’s mindset for productivity in “Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results.” For example, if you aspire to be more physically fit, you should start with a simple goal of putting on your running shoes several days in a row. Forget Perfection. Nobody is ready to fall.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Report found that the four most in-demand soft skills are within leadership, communication, collaboration, and time management.

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics (2018) is a book that Dr. Deming would have surely appreciated. The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Anybody will meet the quota (goal) allotted to him.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.