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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

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Learn to assess what skills you lack and what skills you should outsource to set yourself up for the greatest amount of success Derek Lidow is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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Eight Ways Mentoring Brings Out the Leader in Your Employees

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Patty Alper , author of Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America has been in the field of marketing, communications, and sales for thirty-five years. Alper was honored as the 2010 NFTE Philanthropist of the Year, DC region and currently sits on the National Board.

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

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By identifying “300 different characteristics—from the chirps on the electronic key fob to the clunk of a closing door—that define the personality of its vehicles,” Ford developed a common design language that made it easier to develop single products to sell in all markets. And the company posted annual profits of $6.6

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Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders

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Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. He is a marketing professor at the University of Northern Iowa, business consultant, and the author of five books and over fifty journal articles.

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