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4 Ways to Make Data-Backed Corporate Travel Decisions

Finance, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Sales, Strategy

Travel is essential to SME success in today’s global, hyper-connected workplace. Employees working with customers across the country or throughout the world is not uncommon – in fact, it’s quickly becoming the norm. While travel is essential to developing and maintaining important relationships, providing needed support and securing new business, this piece of your company’s […]

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The World’s Central Banks and Their Respective Economies Are Junkies Their Heroin: Monetary Stimulus

Finance

Douglas Obey, Author, Money and the Human Condition            I can’t help but draw the comparison between a heroin addict and today’s worldwide economies. The world’s economies have become as completely dependent on monetary stimulus (Central Banks printing money and driving interest rates to near zero) as a junkie is on heroin.

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Building a Resilient Business through Finance Transformation – 3 Steps Every CEO Should Take

Finance

Ash Noah, Vice President of CGMA External Relations at the AICPA Businesses today face rapid economic, technological and social changes.  Technology is fueling disruption in every industry, and as organizations struggle to manage increased volatility, uncertainty and complexity, they need support to make better decisions faster. These business shifts and increasing risks require some major

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Investing Our Way To Poverty

Finance

Jerry W. Thomas, President & CEO, Decision Analyst It’s surely un-American to question the huge flows of investment money flooding into technology firms and high-tech startups. After all, it seems like all of these high-tech investments would stimulate a high rate of economic growth in the U.S. True, some of these investments have created spectacular

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The Philosophical Investor

Finance

Gary Carmell, President, CWS Capital Partners Kierkegaard said that “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” My book, The Philosophical Investor – Transforming Wisdom into Wealth chronicles the lessons learned in a nearly 30 year journey in the world of investing and in life.  Learning from others and ourselves is at

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Thinking About Raising Capital Through a “General Solicitation”? CEOs Need to Understand the Hidden Costs

Finance

Fiona Brophy, Partner, Perkins Coie There was much fanfare around the passing of the JOBS Act, especially around the relaxation of the securities laws with respect to the use of “general solicitations.”  Notwithstanding the excitement in the blogosphere, the revised rules also come with some hidden costs that CEOs should be aware of and that make

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