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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

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by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies. The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. .

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

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All it takes is the desire to be innovative and creative in tackling a problem. Nannies are for children – not free men and women who want to prosper in the American way by rolling up their sleeves, working hard and keeping what they earn. . Entrepreneurship. You needn’t work for yourself – or even be working at all – to be an entrepreneur.

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Google's Project Oxygen

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Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? They wanted to build better bosses.

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The Connected Mobility of the Millennial Generations

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Source: Alan Trefler: Build for Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement through Continuous Digital Innovation. . Bottom line: You are either great and loved raptly or really untrustworthy, uncool, and hence, demonized. The power and importance of these kinds of connections is backed up by research. Today, that is not selling so well.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

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According to a regulatory filing for 2011 in the State of Delaware, where Mars is incorporated, there are six members, all grandchildren or great-grandchildren of Frank Mars. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches.

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Are You Paying Attention to Social Cycles?

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World War II also led the United States out of its Great Depression; the innovation and industrialization required to win the war later was applied to products to satisfy a great consumer demand over the next fifty years. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 21, 2011 and The New York Times, February 20, 2011. Prechter Jr.:

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Our Social Brain

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Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. So do the offices of W.L.

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