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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

Identify potential funding sources for both upfront and ongoing costs. Determine the budget lines that will pay for your proposal or describe the financing for it. If future cost savings will fund the initiative, show the payback calculation. Provide a cost-benefit analysis. Define the problem.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you don't slow down to navigate and learn from them, they can trip you up again and again. The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. A word of advice: Before you sign up for an online degree, do your research.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

What can you do to make sure that your invoices are handled promptly? ” And yet, even if you do everything right, clients can still be frustratingly late with their payments. So if your paycheck doesn’t arrive on time, “You think, what did I do wrong?” Do your homework. Invoice early and often.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance. This means understanding policy as a process, one in which learning from failure is accepted and welcomed.

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Will the Proposed Banking Settlement Have Unintended Consequences?

Harvard Business Review

The CFPB estimates that banks saved 75 basis points per loan in special servicing costs by foreclosing instead of modifying loans. Foreclosing is even more expensive when you get the paperwork wrong the first time around and have to do it again, which is what many banks are (appropriately) doing right now.

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