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IDEX, a global applied solutions provider, had a mixed Q3 2024. Revenue rose 0.6% to $798 million while earnings before interest and taxes fell 6.1 % to $168 million over the same period last year. A review of IDEX’s 30 October 2024 earnings call and associated financial reports provided insight regarding the importance of pricing on performance. IDEX is a diverse and complex business. It has three reporting units, Fluid & Metering…
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Entrepreneurs are a different breed, but what is this breed? Recently, Reed et al. examined the decision making practices of highly successful entrepreneurs, individuals who have grown a company to $200 million or more in annual revenues. They found that entrepreneurs tend to use a more effectual logic rather than predictive logic. What is effectual logic versus predictive logic and how does it help entrepreneurs? … Read on.
Read More “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Two leading Harvard University entrepreneurial specialists provide some interesting insight into building entrepreneurial business during these troubled economic times.
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Turtles have shells, but they only progress when they get their head out of their shell. Get your head out and move…
Read More To inspire the consumer, you must help him believe in something that he once thought was impossible. This is where innovators will thrive and institutions will die. Innovators will think in quantum leap fashion. “Institutions” will think incrementally
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