Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

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!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 103

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. health systems.

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System Financial Insurance Insurance 73

BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Almost one third of the firms negatively affected by the storm had no insurance of any Consistent with our predictions, young firms and small businesses insured at much lower rates. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential.

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Insurance Insurance Small Business Finance 70

MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

Finance 75

Finance Cash Flow Banking Government 75

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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Banking Small Business Oliver Wyman Retail 135