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Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?

Let's Grow Leaders

What advice do you have?” So if employees hear “EBITDA” from you or another leader, they understand “what I need from ya.” They understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. ” #AskingForaFriend 3 Master Techniques for Effective Leadership Communication 1.

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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

Be sure your town hall meetings talk more than EBITDA, with a clear message of “What I need from ya.” If you’re part of a large organization, what advice do the big guys have for the start-ups? ” Your Turn. Let’s start a conversation. And the startups have for the big guys?

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Salary Negotiation Tips for Executives

N2Growth Blog

For candidates, executive outplacement consultants offer dispassionate and helpful advice. Look for linkages between EBITDA and your take-home pay. Intermediaries, like executive search consultants, are experts at driving from offer to hire. Align incentives. Still, there are ways to align incentives further.

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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

But if you also throw in acronyms such as ABC ("activity-based costing"), EBITDA ("earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization"), and VBM ("value-based management"), only the accountants in your audience will follow you — you'll lose everyone else. Use them judiciously. Acronyms make writing easier but reading harder.

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

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. And who’s in the best position to offer advice? The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says.

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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. Pfizer divested its consumer health care business in 2006, selling it to J&J for more than 20x EBITDA. And it's a shame. Pfizer Inc. Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

The HR Digest: What is the most useful financial advice you’ve received? Joe has also written toolkits for Harvard Business Press including the ROI Toolkit, Understanding EBITDA, and the Business Valuation Toolkit. The cash flow statement and the key cash metrics are the least well-understood metrics.

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