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You know you’re going to have to interview each of the division heads and other functional leaders, but you can leverage the interview questions from the last assessment you did. Plus, you’ve developed a good system for interpreting interview data.
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This is a good testimonial: “When I came to James, the cashflow in my business was in chaos and my profitability was down despite increasing my business volume in the past year. We now have a good, positive cashflow each and every month, and profitability is up by 13%. The interviews don’t need to be long.
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“That was a major turning point,” Mahindra said in an interview I did with him for a new book, The Three Box Solution. While these core businesses continued to generate cashflow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing. “That is how we were able to make the entire organization begin to forget the past.”
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