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There Are No Cost Centers

Every business unit is a term in the revenue equation — including the ones you've been told to minimize. Here's the math, and what it changes about where you spend.

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Joel Proctor
Jun 24, 2026
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“Cost center” is an accounting convenience that escaped into strategy. On a ledger it means doesn’t book revenue directly. In a meeting it becomes minimize this. Those aren’t the same sentence, and c…

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