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How Can You Manage Your Small Business Finances More Effectively Using Loans?

Strategy Driven

Also like other types of loans, a business owner’s credit rating can be a deciding factor in whether a loan is approved or not, and it impacts the interest rate of any loan as well. Using Loans to Automate Systems Automating repetitive operations can be important for saving you both time and money.

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Secure leadership for an insecure economy

Chartered Management Institute

Welcome to the insecure economy – and a whole new set of management challenges Jaroslav Chudej CMgr FCMI recalls a particularly alarming moment from his 20-plus year career in the hospitality sector. It also shows the degree of power that sits in the hands of untrained managers. Roles are often offered and operated via apps.

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The 5 Easiest Ways to Build Business Credit

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Meredith Wood, Community Manager (Learn more about Meredith at the end of this post). Cash flow is the lifeblood of any small business, and as any small business owner knows, it’s one of the hardest parts of a business to manage. Whatever you do, don’t operate your business on your personal credit.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. What caused Enron''s bankruptcy was, quite simply, the loss of its investment-grade credit rating. What caused Enron to go bankrupt?

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