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Unlocking Financial Freedom with Personify Loans

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In an era of financial unpredictability, securing the right loan can be a game-changer. Whether you’re looking to fund your dream home, start a new business venture, or consolidate existing debts, the right loan can provide the financial leverage needed to achieve your goals.

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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Jim considers: “ The key to moving beyond the paralyzing effects of fear in the workplace is for leaders to acknowledge it exists, commit to eliminating it through participative management practices and put it into action through a transparent process. ” Follow Jim on Twitter at @72keys. Maybe leadership is doing it all wrong.

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Understanding Financial Leverage

Harvard Business Review

The most intimate relationship most of us have with leverage is our home mortgage. However, there are two conditions necessary for financial leverage to actually become power. The second is that the asset underlying the leverage holds its value.

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The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

For instance, managing environmental impact is a very important element of business strategy for firms in the fossil fuel or transportation industries. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies. Not all social and environmental initiatives are created equal.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered. Our results should encourage shareholders to consider how diversity of the social networks of upper management and board members can add value to the firm, given the changing face of the workforce and increasing global competition.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. Even when an organization has a robust pipeline of growth ideas and manages to keep many of them alive, it may lack the human capital needed to accelerate growth.

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