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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. However I am clearly stating that you don’t want to be dependant upon tier-one talent.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Include a press release approach both to business planning and communication. Therefore, because everyone can get discouraged, plan for downtimes to ease their sting. Practice frugality.

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To Know and Still Glow

Chris Brady

With humor, wisdom and insight, Tony engaged us with lively comments and interactive learning methods covering eight essential aspects of our lives and the lives of all those for whom we work: Faith, Finances, Family, Fitness, Friendship, Fun, Following and Freedom. He said, “You’re living in the future you planned five years ago!”

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids

Harvard Business Review

One of the more surprising findings is that the rate of Wharton graduates who plan to have children has dropped by about half over the past 20 years. This change in Wharton students’ plans for parenting is part of a larger trend; a nation-wide baby bust. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

embargo of Cuba (which remains firmly in place) and a consequently sharp improvement in Cuba’s economic conditions. At the last Congress, in 2011, Raul Castro had announced plans to introduce new market reforms and attract foreign investment. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. An economic crossroads.