Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Let your daughter pick something up if she’s old enough. Here are 7 suggestions to get your wife for Christmas: Make a coupon book – A date night a week…or a month… Make up 12 random dates. It may be as simple as never picking up your clothes from the bathroom floor. Wrap up the remote and give it to her.

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Chris Brady

APRIL 22, 2010

  Thebottom lip was quivering, anger and frustration were bubbling up, crying hadobviously been taking place, and the fight to maintain composure was about tobe lost.   And my son didn't lookmuch better, either!   Obviously,this was a moment for the wisdom and strength of Dad.   So much for the wisdom of Dad!

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Up and down, up and down, and the result of his mindless entertainment was that my seat-back tray was bouncing around like a dog in the back of a pickup truck coming home from church on a dirt road. They make it up as they go!  I did come up with a solution for us to deal with our jiggly friends.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. Average earnings among the top 10 were up 6% this year, while the average earnings of the bottom 10 dropped 9%. Indeed, 16 out of bottom 25 firms are FTSE companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Although this wasn’t out of the ordinary for European hoteliers, Ervaring needed to reduce its cost per booking to improve its bottom line. When a user closed out of a hotel website without booking a room, a HotelShield ad would pop up under the window, offering alternative prices and locations within the same or a partner brand.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Like a pyramid with the most essential elements such as food, air, water, rest and sleep at the bottom, once those needs are met the next level is safety, including shelter, security, protection, and stability. Whenever I am serving, giving, and loving, I end up feeling happy. Joy fills you up! But I have found it to be true.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

health care with this venture, set up in partnership with America’s largest not-for-profit hospital network, Ascension. prices, and even at those prices it could be extremely profitable as patient volume picked up. Bottom line: U.S. “For the world to change, America has to change,” Shetty told us. health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Qantas Airways landed in the headlines for a tone-deaf Twitter contest that asked people to tweet their dreams for luxury air travel, including the hashtag #qantasluxury. Hand your marketing team the keys to these social network vehicles, give them a few bucks to spruce up your website with some nice share links, and your job is done.

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Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. If the value proposition is unclear, then you''re likely setting up the business for failure. We serve a clear segment of travelers who are looking for deals, but who also want to control where they stay.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. Make sure those goals line up with the organization’s strategic priorities. But you should include detailed estimates for travel costs, telephones and utilities, and office supplies. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Instagram dodged an operational meltdown that could have rendered the start-up dead on arrival. Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” So, when his daughter began lining up child care and preparing to go back to work after a three-month leave, the two grandmothers offered to take two days a week each. “The bottom line increases when you make these changes.” ” Believing in Your Plan and Speaking up. Learning to Work Differently.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. Highways can’t keep up with demand. Today, the load factor (total vehicle miles traveled divided by lane miles) is growing more than 10 times faster than capacity is. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano darkened the skies over Europe, planes were grounded, interrupting business travel and disrupting air freight. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If the discount airlines are ten times more dangerous, this rises to 1 in a million, but you make up for this by saving $50 per flight. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit). One or nine? It is around 100.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Do I have your attention yet?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The CMO has historically focused on driving growth and brand engagement; the CRO has typically focused on safeguarding the bottom line and minimizing unwanted exposure. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To collect the check she would have needed to travel to a government office. Then, of course, she would have needed to travel again to a bank to cash the check.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Bottom line: Are you game or are you out? I still spend much of my time traveling from conference to conference in the West to meet people who can help my work succeed (I'm writing this on a train bound for Davos). And have you heard that we have more mobile phones than any other continent besides Asia?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. Bottom line…good advisors make things happen and get things done at the behest of their clients for the purpose of enabling the accomplishment of anything ranging from a single task to a lifelong goal.

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