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- The Roles and Goals of External Auditors
- Ten Key Performance Metrics for the Credit and Collection Department
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- Ten Ways Credit Managers get Fired
- Ten Professional Mistakes to Avoid
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Ten Professional Mistakes to Avoid
It is a serious mistake to...
- Rest on prior achievements rather than growing and innovating.
- Fail to understand and appreciate the bigger picture meaning the broader context in which the credit department always operates.
- Pick fights meaning fighting too many battles.
- Be viewed by sales or customers or senior management as inflexible in decision making.
- Disagree with your manager in public... or disagree with your manager too often in private.
- Playing it safe and avoiding too many credit risks.
- Stop learning and stop growing.
- Blindside your manager once --- or once too often.
- Fail to pay attention to details.
- Fail to commit to programs, plans and proposals promulgated by senior management, even if you disagree with them.
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