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Recession-Proofing Your Organization

About this episode: 

In this session we’ll share some very different strategies that leaders can use to recession-proof their business. Topics include:

•  What can you do to preserve it?

•  How do you cut your burn rate, while still investing in critical areas?

•  And when things are very tight, what things can you do, right now, to “find” needed cashflow?

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Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

•  How do you look at cash management during a recession? (00:54)

•  What bad-practice cash management habits do you see organizations unwittingly doing? (03:50)

•  How do you avoid a negative domino effect if employees catch wind of economic uncertainty at the organization? (05:20)

•  Is "recession-proofing" your organization a finite list of tasks? Is it done annually? Quarterly? Is it a mentality? (08:28)

•  "Is "recession-proofing" something an organization does before a crunch? Or is it a contingency plan you have ready to roll out when needed? (11:08)

•  Are some business models more "recession-proofable" than others? (15:25)

•  Best practice for cash flow management (18:18)

•  How creative can a company be with cash management? (22:28)

•  Where on an organization's priority list does "recession-proofing" fall? (00:49)

•  What "red herring" cash preserving mistakes do organizations make? (03:02)

•  How can an organization "double down" their productivity to push through an economic low point? (11:57)

•  If a company is going through a cash crunch, should they drop their costly business coaches, or is this when they need them the most? (16:01)

•  Exit strategies: Mergers, selling the company, taking on partners, etc. (19:28)

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