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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations. It has the strongest balance sheet, is the most profitable mining business in the world (measured by underlying earnings and cash generation), has substantially reduced costs (by some $6 billion), working capital ($3.5

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus. For more on this, read Dee Hock’s book about starting up the Visa network.). Other SSO rules are important too.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. Russian executives have experienced multiple crises and high volatility, as well as returns to strong growth.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And, since they were spread out across a geographically diverse area, they represented a large enough market to support renewed profitable growth. Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. Hospitals presented two advantages.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business Review

Beyond that, the households were diverse: rural, urban, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, recent immigrants, and families that have been in the U.S. When a business, rather than a household, faces such volatility, it responds by building up working capital. for generations. Related Video. The Other Kind of Inequality, Explained.