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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Want To Create SMART Objectives? Here’s How

Strategy Driven

An example of an objective which is specific is – increasing sales by 25% by the end of the next quarter through an online marketing campaign. For example: In the Finance Department, an objective could be to cut spending and improve profit margins. Evaluate the Market.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Thanks David.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. The very lack of consensus in CAPM interpretation, he thought, was consistent with the workings of healthy and efficient markets. "It

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. .

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example.