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February 4, 2020 Managing With Ways of the Past

by Jonathan Byrnes

Profit mapping enables you to penetrate through the tacit but ubiquitous iron grip of your company’s history to identify the really critical opportunities and risks that will determine your success or failure today and in the future. This podcast sheds light on this enormously important management problem, and explains how profit mapping enables real zero-based budgeting that can allow managers to turn their companies’ history from a sea anchor into a powerful source of competitive advantage.

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Jonathan Byrnes

Jonathan Byrnes is Founding Partner and Chairman Senior Lecturer at MIT for over 25 years. Author of award-winning book, Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink. Doctorate from Harvard Business School. Thirty years experience in profit generation.

 

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