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

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So what’s it going to be this year…a turkey, an extra paid day off, a cash bonus, stock/options/warrants, something creative or nothing at all? I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When it comes to the construction of messaging, I have found that people will tend to fall into one of the four following groups. The Message “is&# the Message : This group believes that content is king…The emphasis here is that if the message is creative enough, or valuable enough, nothing else matters.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If only we could learn the art of dealing with conflict in a collaborative and constructive way, I am sure that organisations would be transformed. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach.

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Excellence Begets Excellence

Chris Brady

Mediocrity is worshipped, decadence masquerades as creativity, and lazy is the new cool. Make excellence the cornerstone of the life you are constructing. We reach for an explanation that takes the pressure off ourselves and find one readily at hand in the popular culture around us. Truth, however, is a pesky thing.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What might a house-for-the-poor look like? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Is Experience Enough? No.

Mike Cardus

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted by: mike Is experience enough? We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. All rights reserved.