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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business. To improve cash flow, I recommend subcontracting as a way to generate income while you continue to build your own business. It can be difficult for veterans, too! What makes you stand out?

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

MHI has over 80,000 employees on board from different countries and cultures who are led by effective team management. Since 2007, MHI Group has changed its management paradigm toward portfolio optimization, introducing a strategic business evaluation system and focusing on cash flow.

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Balancing the Scale

Tom Spencer

Increasing production tends to lead to higher cash flows, and managers who were previously focused on production, innovation and bottom line results start to shift their focus towards turf battles and extreme careerism. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

The governing objective is the cornerstone upon which the organization builds its culture, communications, and choices about how it allocates capital. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

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If Using Freelancers Is The Way Many Companies Do Business Now, How Do You Protect Your Corporate Culture?

Simon Associates

The challenge was how to employ the new engineering talent he needed without adding unnecessary expenses, at least until his business started to generate cash flow again — not an uncommon challenge today. He is in the seals and gasket industry but plummeting oil prices have crushed him, forcing him to reinvent his business.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Corporate culture. Compensation structure.

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