The Companies That Sound Most Confident May Be the Ones to Worry About
An earnings call can reveal whether a company knows where it's going. But what if the most confident-sounding language is actually the biggest red flag?
Overview
In this episode of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributor Rachel Warren sits down with Phil Le-Brun, former international CIO of McDonald's, and Dr. Jana Werner, executive advisor at Amazon Web Services — co-authors of The Octopus Organization — to unpack why 70 to 90 percent of corporate transformations never deliver what they promised, what they call watermelon reporting — green on the outside, red on the inside — and the words that reveal whether a company is truly built for the future, or just really good at sounding like one.
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Originally published at www.fool.com.