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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

The repercussions of water damage are far-reaching, potentially causing extensive property damage, interrupting business operations, and leading to substantial financial losses. Technology can revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering new tools for efficiency, communication, and data analysis.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

Swensen said this at a Bloomberg Link conference held in honor of that great fiduciary, Vanguard founder Jack Bogle. For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. None of them are, by modern Wall Street standards, rich.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures?

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it. Truman Please comment below sharing your thoughts and insights on what you believe defines great leadership. I'm glad my post was of some value.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change.