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Profit First: Reverse Engineer Your Way To Financial Success

Terry Starbucker

What’s wrong with the traditional “GAAP” accounting formula. The money management genius of your grandmother. Leadership More Human Podcast' Highlights from our chat include: Mike’s “Humbling Moment” with his daughter, and how it changed his life. Why the “Profit First” formula works with the entrepreneur’s natural behavior.

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Giving Executives 40% of Revenue is Insane

Curious Cat

I have previous written on my belief that excessive executive compensation had reached the level of a deadly disease of western management (building on the W. When you read about non-GAAP earnings, often one of the big costs they are excluding is the massive stock giveaways to executives.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

According to our research at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management , it’s the beliefs of leaders that drive organizational investments, board selection, and management team development and selection, and these beliefs do not change quickly. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. Imagine if all manufacturers had, for example, a supply chain efficiency score, or all companies had a leadership development score.