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CEO Confidence Falls To Decade Low, But Few Predict Recession

Chief Executive

We will not build sustainable growth without affordable energy, a motivated workforce and an efficient supply chain.” The Year Ahead The proportion of CEOs forecasting increases in profits and revenues over the coming year continued to fall in June, now down 21 and 10 percent respectively.

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CEOs Can’t Fight The Fed, But You Can Do These Things To Weather The Coming Storm

Chief Executive

FWIW, CEO100 is our peer network exclusively for CEOs who run complex organizations with more than $100 million in revenues— learn more about membership ; it’s excellent). energy costs). Continue to innovate to improve productivity—focus on product and process improvements to increase revenues with your given team.

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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

So Simon’s business blew up, lost a ton of revenue, lost a lot of sleep, lost a lot of stuff, and then built it back up in a in a more digital, really amazing way. How does the business benefit from all this energy and effort that you put into various projects? That would probably be it. This Is it about talent attraction?

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Will SMBs Thrive or Fail in this Inflation-Threatened Holiday Season? Here’s What Reports Show

Zenefits

It’s now at its highest level in about 40 years — an astronomical 8.2% — and people are paying the price through the high cost of food, goods, services, and energy. Adjusted all-items indices (minus food and energy) rose 6.6%. Energy indices increased 19.8%, down from the 23.8% Here’s how the U.S. increase ending in August.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business Review

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. The energy-trading company had a very high ROA. “Sales are subject to rules as to when the revenue can be recorded. Take Enron. What mistakes do people make when using ROA and ROE?

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues. In a recent post on HBR.org , I called attention to the fact that we entrepreneurship promoters are too focused on start-up, and need to re-balance the dialog to support scale-up as well. Even better. Governments and shareholders should have different motivations.