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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

By partnering closely with clients, executive search firms gain valuable insights into the culture, values, and business objectives of the organizations they are working with. It involves identifying and developing potential leaders within the organization who can step into key finance leadership roles in the future.

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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

Many of the business owners we work with say they’re ready to get 2011 behind them. January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment. Purchase extra, necessary items such as Q1 2012 inventory or pay 2012 property or E&O insurance early.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Understand “The Business You’re In” and how it fits into the core business. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Running the business. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date.

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The Layoff Letter Blueprint: 10 Ways to Write A Polite Layoff Email to Employees

HR Digest

Example: Dear Harry, I would like to take this opportunity to update you on our recent merger with [company name] and the resulting changes in our business objectives. You will also retain your health insurance benefits, and we will provide you with information on your COBRA eligibility within the next two weeks.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well.

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Establish Expertise Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In a competitive marketplace, developing a reputation as an expert is one of the best forms of career insurance. Michael Leckie was a vice president of human resources for a prominent research company when he developed an interest in coaching. Why isn’t he concentrating on his real job? )

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Coca-Cola's Marketing Shifts from Impressions to Expressions

Harvard Business Review

Awareness is fine, but advocacy will take your business to the next level. (I I used to think that loyalty was the highest rung on the consumer pyramid until I became the CMO of Allstate Insurance. There, I saw clearly that so much business was driven through personal referrals and advocacy by individuals for their agent.).