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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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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. 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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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. 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. Transparency: strengthen investor disclosures.

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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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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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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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Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. For those who live in the Bay Area, they can work from the office, if they’d like. So we’ve arrived at an unorthodox system that serves our needs perfectly. So it’s a system we plan to keep utilizing. It’s all about your output.