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Choosing The Perfect Business Partner

Women on Business

Furthermore, I knew that if I wanted to have a successful business in the long run, I needed someone else on my team: someone who had skills and passions that complemented mine. But I wasn’t as keen on the business side of things – finances, bookkeeping, and other nitty-gritty that keeps a business flowing smoothly.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan. To be successful in creating social media influence your efforts need to be centered around others.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly. LEYF's initial plan for growth was to franchise its successful model nationwide.

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? As you say, it is not about the coach.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. The success formula is part car guy, part bean counter, and part strategist. Central to GM's downfall was getting killed in the U.S.

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How Europe's New Gold Standard Undermines Democracy

Harvard Business Review

So, the gold standard could only work well in the depoliticized environment of the Belle Époque, when the electoral franchise in most advanced economies was limited to wealthy white men and well before the advent of powerful labor unions.

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