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We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balancesheet from the previous year. For example, instead of asking for the average payroll for each department over time, ask for a representative current salary of an employee in each department: sales, operations, finance.
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For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. To restore its balancesheet, it had to sell half the business. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.
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Click on the link for prisoner''s dilemma examples. It does not need to borrow money from foreign countries to finance its ongoing deficit (because there is no deficit). The key point is that as long as Greece runs a current account surplus, it can finance its way via taxation, without further Troika meddling.
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