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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By communicating your expectations you are also letting your team know what you are able to commit to and that will set their expectations of you, so do not over promise. Commitment to the group is transparent and will send a strong message to any teammates that might be on the fence. Align yourself with your teammates. No excuses.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

For what lead Life & Fire’s directors to commit fraud in the first place was in part driven by a desire (so they claimed) to extend credit to high-risk borrowers being ignored by traditional banks. Mr. Maxwell’s rationality was no match for his era’s good intentions.

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Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore

Harvard Business Review

For example, financial firms have been able to enhance credit risk capabilities through the ability to process seven years of customer credit transactions in the same amount of time that it previously took to process a single year, resulting in much greater credit precision and lower risk of credit fraud.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed. In fact I think the evidence probably is conclusive that a necessary and sufficient condition for a bubble is a prolonged period of economic stability, stable prices, and therefore low risk spreads, credit-risk spreads.