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What are the numbers this quarter on Values Conflicts?

CO2

Leaders are trained to identify when revenues, EBITDA, number of new customers, and retention of customers are up or down. They are less likely to receive training in how to identify values conflicts. . Values conflicts can have a tremendous impact on employee engagement, employee retention, and alignment.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? ’” He needed help. . ”

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Its governance leadership group and supporting management clarified the company's risk appetite, defined its risk universe, determined how to measure risk, and identified which technologies could best help the company manage its risks.

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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

When you write e-mails, reports, letters, and other documents, here's how to keep your readers alert and responsive: Use personal pronouns skillfully. By the time you find it (or give up trying), you've lost the writer's train of thought. Use them judiciously. Never put your own readers through that. Stick to words when you can.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

It’s not a one-time event, whether it be a three-day seminar or a three-week training program. Financial training programs for first- and second-line managers must begin with basic terminology. A conversation with Joe Knight about the value of financial literacy and how to close the existing knowledge gap in corporate America.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. The first component of a Deal Profile is figuring out how to define success. It did this in a few ways.