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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

I F you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing. a game, we are looking for a product that ends up becoming wildly popular, more popular than anyone thought it could be in the early days. Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong.

Finance 368
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How To Enhance Your Business’s Finance Department

Strategy Driven

Finance is the backbone of any business. As such, ensuring that your business’s finance department is up to par is important. Here are the top ways to enhance your company’s finance department: Implement Financial Software. It’s important to offer good remuneration and benefits to your finance employees.

Finance 107
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Closing the Year | How to Successfully Manage Your Finance Team

Strategy Driven

If the month-end close is like game day for the finance and accounting department, closing out the fiscal year is the World Series. There’s so much to do in a limited time and, in most companies, this is done with a smaller team than you’d like. The middle of the year-end close is no time to find out that your team is out of sync.

Finance 68
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Does Your Team Have a #1 Priority?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mike McHargue: Does your team have one clearly stated priority? And, is everyone on your team crystal clear about what that priority is? When teams have more than one top priority there often isn’t unity and clarity about what actually is important. The HR team is focused on HR issues. They were wrong.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

They’re the metaphorical walls that separate different departments or teams within an organization. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. For instance, how has it minimized the defects that occur in handoffs from one team to another? logistics, and finance. finance, I.T.,

Industry 269
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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. Are we following processes? But, you know it’s more complicated than that.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2022 Compilation

Leading Blog

After the Layoff: How to Support Your Team When it Just Got Smaller by @LetsGrowLeaders. What If Your Company Was Divided Up Into Countless Startups? How To Build Resilient Teams by @davidburkus. UK's new finance reforms part of a 20-year plan to be world's next Silicon Valley. via @corp_rebels. by @JenniferVMiller.