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Culture Management: It’s a Thing

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Culture is a part of every organization (like finance), and there is increasing agreement that it has a direct and powerful impact on competitiveness, performance, and bottom-line results. Let’s be as disciplined and focused with culture as we have been with finance. Understand. Culture is not about how happy your people are.

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Get Control of Your Company’s Spending With Procurement Options

Strategy Driven

That can lead to overruns that really cut into their bottom line. Making a bad decision can quickly end up costing your company more than you expect, even if the product or item doesn’t seem to be that central to your business. Over time, even small amounts of extra expense can add up for a business and cause serious problems.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

I encourage you to learn her definition and concept of “saving face” which will immediately give you a number of tools to take your relationships to the next level. What’s the Maya Hu-Chan definition of ‘saving face’? There is an old saying I remember hearing when I was growing up in Taiwan: Spilled water is hard to regain.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

” Far from the desertion of tedious tasks or monotonous busywork, this means giving team members control and independence, and constantly cleaning the edges of my own plate that, almost by definition of the role, will constantly overflow. Professional roles in Mali are rigid. He divides his time between the US and Bamako, Mali.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Yet my mind doesn’t light up the same way in microeconomics as it does learning about the overlapping women’s movement, anti-war movement and civil rights movements of the 1960s. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions.

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What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

N2Growth Blog

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business. Where possible all pricing should be subject to nuanced considerations.

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