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Preview Thursday: Total Value Optimization

Lead Change Blog

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. Bowen is the Chairman and CEO of Maine Pointe , a firm specializing in driving EBITDA and cash improvements across the areas of procurement, operations, and logistics to enable growth.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

Now the business environment is downright gloomy—the economy is in recession, the country just lost its hard-won Standard & Poor’s investment-grade status ; its currency, the real, has depreciated to 12-year lows ; inflation is nearing 10% ; and talk of presidential impeachment has spread virally across mainstream media.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. billion, or 20.6 All rights reserved.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

An effective financial literacy program should clear concepts of finance and accounting in simple terms with examples that are relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Joe Knight: Training, training, training, interactive, basic training on the three statements, financial ratios, and the changing financial environment.

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Improve Your Ability to Learn

Harvard Business Review

It became clear that John had succeeded in the past by doing what he knew and operating rather conservatively within his domain. It’s easy to assume that those qualities would be highly prized in any business environment. He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership.