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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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The Powerful Way Onboarding Can Encourage Authenticity

Harvard Business Review

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Newcomers were given a badge and fleece sweatshirt with the company’s name on both of them.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. She also took the unusual step of installing three CMOs who could help provide detailed insights into three of the main business groups of the company. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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The 7 Essential Truths About Social Media

Terry Starbucker

They are tactics that fit into a strategy, which fits into a bigger picture of the goals we’re trying to achieve as a company. To put it more practically, if you are bad in the call center and at the front counter, what makes you think you’ll be good on Twitter? Thanks again to you all, and all the best!

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Mary Grace holds leadership appointments with several professional societies including Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.