Acknowledgments (1)
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Writing a book is a journey unlike any other I have ever taken, and, as with most journeys, it would not have been possible without the love, support, encouragement, feedback, and tireless efforts of the many people who made the journey with me. I know I will have the chance to sit down with each [...]
Read More..>>Providing your contact info
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
After you establish your identity by presenting various personal identification cards, the ‘amiin al-maSraf will probably ask you for some more wathaa’iq so that he can process your application. For example, he may ask for your ‘unwaan ar-raahin (oon-wan ah-rah-heen; current address) or your ‘unwaan as-saabiq (oon-wan ah-sah-beek; former address). Of course, in order to [...]
Read More..>>Warrants
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Warrants are very much like subscription rights in that they are usually used to purchase stock for less than what the stock is currently worth, or the current market value. Warrants differ from subscription rights in that subscription rights entitle the bearer to deduct a certain amount from the price of [...]
Read More..>>Hows Matter
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The world moves faster than books. As of the moment we went to press, these pages had managed to catch my best thinking and the most current information at my disposal. But at almost every stage of the writing process—draft, revision, polish, proofreading, and publication —our hyperconnected, transparent world continued to add new dynamics and [...]
Read More..>>Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Posted on November 28, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Do you know girls who are fun and funny? Who think positive and love to laugh? It’s hard not to like a good sport who enjoys a good time. Being serious and earnest is admirable. Being whiny and complaining is trouble.
Read More..>>Afterword Part 2
Posted on November 28, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
You can’t do self-improvement, but if in every e-mail, conversation, meeting, and task you are thinking like a leader, you will improve. You can’t do tolerance, but if in every interaction you strive to fill the spaces between you and others with trust, you will get tolerance, and a whole lot more. You can’t do [...]
Read More..>>The Cash-Adjusted Income Statement (3)
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
While the balance sheet and income statement are constructed—that is, built up from the transaction level as sales and other business events are recorded in a journal and then
successively carried over to ledgers, trial balance sheets and finished statements—the cash-flow statement is deconstructed. Instead of assembling a cash flow from the ground up, the balance [...]
Afterword
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
You would expect a restaurateur to understand service, but Danny Meyer, founder of New York City’s Union Square Cafe, one of America’s most successful culinary restaurant organizations, goes further. “We are in a very new business era,” says Meyer in his book, Setting the Table. “I’m convinced that this is now a hospitality economy, no [...]
Read More..>>Cash Forecasting
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Cash forecasting is used to estimate the liquidity position of the company for periods ranging from the current day up to one year. Short-term forecasts (0-3 months) are used primarily for managing liquidity. Operational forecasts (1–12 months) are used for medium term working capital and financing requirements. Long-term forecasts (1-5 years) [...]
Read More..>>Circles in Circles, Part Two
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
And so we have circumnavigated the lens of HOW and returned to where we began, envisioning a better future through the pursuit of significance. And so we go around again.
Like a ship’s sextant aimed at the stars, this lens—the Leadership Framework—can help you navigate your way through a world of HOW. By developing a leadership [...]
