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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Alice Snell presents Public Sector Hiring Reform posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions. Art Petty presents Leadership Caffeine: Prepare Your Mind to Conquer Presentation Anxiety posted at Management Excellence. Grossman presents Valuing meaningful work always plays better to the bottom line.

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

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. ” 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.”

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How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused

Harvard Business Review

And finally, writing a values statement is used as the start of an ongoing, transformational journey, not the conclusion of one. When these three conditions aren’t present, values can get hijacked and misused. Without accountability, values become a weapon to punish. Here’s how it happens: 1.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies. We gather career history data for the founders of all 76 private equity firms in our survey. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Tools for each challenge are presented, backed by examples from companies – from small firms to global giants – that have successfully put these methods into practice.