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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

‣ Stephen Devaux (USA), is a project management theorist, consultant, author, and educator with 36 years of experience. Ask any project manager how big her project is and you will hear something like: “Well, it’s a ten-month project with a budget of eight million euros.” Business people always fear big losses on projects.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. She worked her way up to manage several locations of a quick-serve restaurant. households.

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LIVE: How to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive & Accessible

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

In a 2015 study, Deloitte reported that diverse companies earned 2.3 times higher cash flow per employee. And while diversity may just be a measure of success, inclusion is the ultimate goal. An inclusive workplace can improve the wellbeing of your employees, boost moral, and increase productivity.

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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

The headline call was and remains that Germany will be close to recession by Q4-2014 or Q1-2015 setting up a desperate ECB and a Europe once again close to zero growth instead of the “escape velocity” everyone and their dog promised you and me in December and January. The US average GDP the last five years has been 2.0%.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

Not only has there been zero bounce, but next year''s expectations continue to be downgraded with 65% of all estimate changes to 2015 currently coming through as downgrades. Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? Meanwhile European earnings momentum has also collapsed. If so (i.e.

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