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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. But all this requires planning or perhaps more accurately, imagining your second career.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. 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.