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When Growth is Deceiving

Harvard Business Review

Only after a deep dive into the data did I discover, to my surprise, that we were operating under the wrong assumption. To thrive in those hyper-competitive seas, a company must continually unleash value-creating innovations. My father was a CPA and amateur poker player. Competition Customers Innovation'

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I adore my CPA and bookkeeper and we strive to be generous with what we have. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. It’s massively life-giving to our marriage. What is that!?” As a man thinketh, right?

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. In some cases, they stand to gain the most. (No

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