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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Based on a combined thirty years of research and experience, Rita and Ian’s book provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth.

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Life's Long Cruise? Planning for a Second "Me" Career

Harvard Business Review

Even modest continued earnings dramatically change the NPV calculation. One with concentrated blocks of time to devote to our own interests, rather than the constant need to juggle the competing demands that complicated pursuit of our first career. I wrote the book Retire Retirement before the recession.

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

Harvard Business Review

.” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. Overlook the impact of financial skills on your career.