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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Make investments toward quality controls. Continuous quality improvement plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? Did the rating agencies understand that the acceleration of debt maturities brought on by a downgrade could cause a bankruptcy? Ethics Failure Finance'

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Upholding standards of quality and commitment. With maturity comes the quest to learn more, understand the factors and apply newly acquired insights to higher purposes. Show business life as a continuous quality process (not a quick fix or rapid gain). It is to be just: Committed to customers. Respectful of employees.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

It’s a mature category that is still trying to figure itself out… Because it is so competitive, it really is about understanding who you are, what you stand for, and what you don’t.”. It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So

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