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The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs

CEO Insider

A fractional CFO is a highly qualified business finance professional that your company can hire on a part-time basis. The post The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

Musk’s long arc in guiding Tesla from highly-ignored sports car, which financed the luxury Model S, which, in turn, made possible the 3, is now crushing an entire global industry. Otherwise, companies are in peril of becoming driverless, autonomous vehicles, subject to an uncertain future fraught with potentially lethal hazards.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Here we accept the fact that much expertise is required, and only some people in a company have it. Most companies need a strong HR. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance.

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Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition

Harvard Business Review

All things considered (interests, age, health, finances), early 2016 seemed like the right time. If you’ve formed strong relationships with people and if the company has invested in your development, then leaving can feel like betrayal. I went from junior associate to partner to managing partner and eventually to senior partner.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. In the U.S. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. But if board members conclude that their companys vitality depends on process improvement, what kind of CEO should they choose?

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