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Three Reasons Leaders Should Ask for Help

Next Level Blog

He spoke rapidly and clearly about how his team approached the project, what they had overcome along the way and the impact that their work was having on the company. There’s a ton of leverage that comes with a designated leadership position. As the leader told his story, his confidence and competence came through loud and clear.

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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. What could have saved these companies?

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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. They create flux time for employees to devote to new projects. (3M, Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles.

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

To estimate the effect of a CEO’s social network’s diversity on their firm’s value, we used ordinary least square regression models to control for other variables that could potentially change firm value, such as firm size, profitability, financial leverage, investment intensity, and corporate governance.