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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “finance”

shareholders, Toby Elwin, blog

Fast Start — How Shareholders are Ruining American Business

In the quest to maximize returns to shareholders executive doctrine shifted from stakeholders to shareholders. In “How Shareholders are Ruining American Business”, The Atlantic’s, Justin Fox, calls out shareholder value ideology.

Fast start questions for anyone who is a shareholder or stakeholder.

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digital, technology, design

Fast Start — Too Big to Succeed

Fast Start conversation:  Big companies can spread fixed costs across a larger base.  Big company capability to spread costs means better shareholder, …

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Darth Vader, conference table, Toby Elwin, blog, social metrics, matter, boss

Social metrics that matter to your boss

A business case usually relies on numbers.  Numbers to justify the investment, numbers to project the return on investment, and numbers …

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financerisksocial media
america inc, mary meeker, annual report, Toby Elwin, blog

USA Inc. Mary Meeker’s letter to investors on America’s financial statements

The United States as a for-profit corporation.

Mary Meeker takes an investor relation’s view of a letter to USA Inc. shareholders and presents how investors might position the United States of America as a corporation.

What position will you take going short, going long, or more likely: what’s going on?

financeriskventure capital
human capital, risk assessment, weight, tangible, intangible, Toby Elwin, risk

Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 1

We make models to get an idea, on a small-scale, of what might happen on a large-scale.  Models help identify risk and …

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economicsfinancehuman capitalrisk
human resources, foreign, language

Business as a foreign language for HR professionals

Today in Human Resource Executive Online I eagerly read a post titled Is Business a Foreign Language for HR? Anyone who has …

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financehuman resourcesorganization development

5 reasons human resources hurt consumer brands

Every person connected to your organization is in sales and marketing.  Each interaction anyone connected to your company, your government agency, …

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Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for 2 at the table, thumbnail

Sales, finance, and human resources, only room for two at the table

Every business function is subordinated to either: sales, finance, or human resources. How can HR possibly have any impact when business is all about sales, brining in the money and finance making the best use of the money?

financehuman resourcesorganization development
CSI, Gary Sinese, music industry crime, Toby Elwin, blog

CSI Music Industry — Part 1: The Crime Scene

First in a series of investigations [more like a cold case, see update below] around the music industry record business death …

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