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12 Core Competencies For Great Leadership

Lead Change Blog

They thrive on facts, figures and numbers—whether it’s ROI, ROE, or EBIDTA. They bring together the powerful forces of empowerment, accountability, and communication to build the foundation for a healthy culture of collaboration. The more perspectives at the table, the more creative, strong, well-developed ideas are likely to emerge.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.

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Idle Funds are the Devil's Playground

Harvard Business Review

The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance. But in general, prior to the development of a sophisticated banking system, capital was invested in illiquid assets, meaning tangible, productive ones.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

There is no more powerful question in a U.S. corporation than "what's the ROE on that?" ROE justifies the means. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. Social media spending?

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