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10 Reasons Why Every Manager Should take a Finance Course

Great Leadership By Dan

You’ll understand that the people or companies that buy your products are not your only customers; the shareholders that buy your stock are customers too. Caution: when employees feel like owners, no more wasting money on expensive furniture, management boondoggles, or projects with a poor net present value.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business Review

Customer Lifetime Value : This is the net present value of all future customer revenues with account for attrition and your discount rate. It’s either in a state of growth, peak productivity, or decline. Lack of momentum and sluggishness spell doom to a CX program, and leadership must propel the program.

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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” ” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Take a doctor’s office.