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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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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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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

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

They seek to change the system to change the behavior. It is not surprising to see the Aspen institute take a systems view to addressing the problem. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. Fiduciary Duty: better align interests of financial intermediaries and their investors.

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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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