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

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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). If your costs are likely to increase by 20% or more over the next three years, have a multi-pronged approach and take bold actions. to make more costs variable).

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There Is A Roadmap Through Today’s Financial Crunch

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CFOs have the data; you need to massage it, P&L and balance sheets, in ways that people can understand. CFOs may want to guide their companies “to grow cash generation” instead of revenues per se. We’re not going to final costs — just gross margin, and gross margin that is inflation-adjusted. Wield unit economics.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

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You see people who maintain highly conservative balance sheets and enormously prudent financial positions. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost. They’re not the most efficient use of capital; they’re not the most efficient use of buffers. What they are is enormously resilient by design.