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Effective Handling of Employee Personal Problems is Critical to Maintaining Workforce Efficiency

Strategy Driven

It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. Accommodate Short-Term Needs: You may need to be flexible in order to make temporary accommodations to help the employee through a time of need.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We then required our entire staff to attend a week-long intensive program. We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. As a global business, the ability to maintain control over efficiencies—especially in terms of importing and exporting goods—is a must. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. The issuers’ stock price increases around the announcement of green bond offering, indicating that investors expect the bonds to contribute to shareholder value. How the stock market responds.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

While rates and terms varied, it was not unusual for post notes to trade at yields of 2 percent per month or more, compared to banks that were lending at yields of five percent per year, Professor Hilt’s research found. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low.

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What is the importance of pre-money valuation For Your Business?

Strategy Driven

With the contribution of cash to the balance sheet of a business through the shareholder value, the post-money value becomes stronger due to the additional cash earned. A pre money valuation is crucial for financing as eventually, it can decide if an entrepreneur has the starry, strong and bad, or sometimes has no way out.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? billion more than their total tangible book value.

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