After spending 30 years in the private sector, I felt increasingly unsettled that the value of my work was best defined by an EBIDTA calculation.

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Financial outperformers (as measured by EBIDTA) are 57 percent more likely than underperformers to use collaborative and social networking tools to enable global teams to work more effectively together.

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Companies need to stop using a dizzying array of earnings measures, from pro forma and cash to EBIDTA, and focus on a uniform standard that doesn't give a misleading picture of the balance sheet.

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