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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. Grow while keeping fixed costs constant. He did both. I realized we could do both at the same time.

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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

Airline revenues collapsed while fixed costs stayed high. airline in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking for 2020 based on key operational performance metrics. Southwest Airlines has been giving its employees and customers L — love and leadership — since its founding in 1971.

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During this Crisis, Don’t Expect Business as Usual from the Family Enterprise

Strategy Driven

That uncertainty and inability to be in command of business operations makes us anxious. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business. Use this opportunity to talk to younger generations in the family about business operations and the trials ahead.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. It is important to have these answers before starting a small business.

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How To Reduce Business Expenses

HR Digest

The use of cloud computing can help to save hardware and operational cost. Not just about the cost reduction, it also gives the business a wider range of profit-making opportunity. Businesses should also learn to recycle waste materials to save cost and not to just dispose of them arbitrarily. Evaluation staff cost.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. That is what GM is trying to do.