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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Consider the case of a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company.

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The Right Way to Prepare Your Budget

Harvard Business Review

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. If you’re the manager of the Moose Head Division at the fictional company Amalgamated Hat Rack, for instance, you might look at the 2014 budget to get ideas about how to increase revenue, cut costs, or both.

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The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. Finally, besides the emergence of many new programs, 2014 also saw the demise of many existing programs, some top-rated in the past. Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management' First and foremost is the emergence of many new programs.