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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth: In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 2: Concept Validation Is Not Enough

Strategy Driven

At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Capital was extremely scarce, and interest rates were extraordinarily high.

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The Secret Button for Getting Your Ideas Approved

Strategy Driven

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. Army as a combat arms officer.

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The CEO of Children’s National Health System on Leadership, Innovation, and Delivering Specialized Care

Harvard Business Review

He went on to become the president and CEO of Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and recently published a memoir, Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine. How can the health care system adapt to bring that kind of specialized experience to more families?

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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Stop Budgeting, Start Improving

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, organizations need financial targets, and when they are under severe pressure, slashing "overhead" is far faster and easier. Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. A performance management system needs to include both financial and process improvement targets.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. They stem in confusing and challenging forms from significant geopolitical developments: e.g. populism, nativism and protectionism in the U.S. In most major U.S.

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