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5 Leadership “Insurance” Plans – Is Your Organization Prepared?

Modern Servant Leader

For our health, we have insurance policies, but what about for your leadership? What insurance do you have against the sudden loss of key leadership? I suggest some planning for your leadership insurance: 1. Short Term Leadership Insurance. Short term leadership insurance should be the same.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

Here are just a few examples that we’ve faced in our careers: Decreasing insurance benefits or eliminating positions. For example, if you have a short-term loss in demand, rather than lay people off, is there a short-term labor need elsewhere in your organization—or even with another business? Win with Values.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash. Consequently, a business may be short of cash until payment is received. Those who are adverse to theory may thrive in business as long as the parameters familiar to them remain in place.

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Research Explores How To Avoid Layoffs During A Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University explores whether such layoffs were necessary or whether things like short-time work programs could help firms retain workers. The authors argue that implementing short-time work programs can allow firms to reduce the number of hours employees work while continuing to pay them a full-time wage.

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Strategies for Successful Business Finance

Strategy Driven

This plan should outline the company’s short-term and long-term financial goals, as well as the strategies to achieve them. To optimize cash flow, businesses must streamline their receivables and payables processes, reduce inventory carrying costs, and consider options like credit lines and short-term loans when needed.

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Exploring Medical Leave Laws in America: What You Need to Know

HR Digest

However, there are situations that are not eligible for FMLA, such as caring for a sick elderly relative who is not a parent, pet care, and short-term illnesses. Medical leave is also different from short-term disability (STD). They also must give 30 days notice before taking this leave of absence.

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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

Ambiguity is a condition we sink into because it is automatic and it provides short-term benefits that manifest in a number of ways. The short-term benefits of ambiguous organizational behaviors come at enormous long-term cost. As John Lennon wrote in the song “Strawberry Fields Forever,”.