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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. “Well played,” I thought to myself…my interest was piqued.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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To Know and Still Glow

Chris Brady

In his newest book, Ravi Zacharias asks, "How does one take the emotional high points and successfully balance them with the sharp edges of sorrow that are also part of life?" " Posted by: Sid Thornton | January 05, 2011 at 02:43 PM While recently watching my kids play I was trying to wrap my mind around just this very thing.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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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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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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