If so, your finance managers are the Status Quo police, keeping the business from doing what may be competitively necessary though frighteningly new.

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If you, or your advisor, or the portfolio managers your advisors select for their client, can keep your eye on that ball, it will inform your decision about the stock market and your portfolio at large.

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If your Net Promoter system is working well, frontline employees and business unit managers should be reacting immediately to declines in bottom-up Net Promoter scores.

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In other words, some managers there have the attitude that if you really care about your side projects you should be willing to put in some nights and weekends.

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If something were to suddenly happen to you, or to one of your key managers, is there a plan in place to deal with it?

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If your name was on the green sheet you went to the back of the room where managers handled your redundancy.

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Just like in an election campaign, if you convince the decision-makers (be they voters or hiring managers) that you can fulfill your promises, you get the job (or contract, investment, stock price, etc.).

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The fix is simple: Require fund firms to disclose how, and how much, they're paying asset managers, and make managers reveal how much of their own money they've got in your fund--if any.

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