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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

The need exists for comprehensive business ideas and growth strategies. The need is ever-present for interfacing with senior executives and updating management skills, to avoid burnout and stimulate the seasoned professionals toward new heights. Technology consulting firms. The Better Business Bureau. Researchers.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. We can all learn from each other while waiting for spring.

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Teams That Only Think They Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

For a top management group, it might be the requirement to reduce overall expenses or headcount by 20%; for a sales or business development team, the goal might be to increase revenues by 10% in the next quarter; and for a product development team the focus could be on accelerating a market launch by two months.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law.

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Let Go of What Made Your Company Great

Harvard Business Review

But simultaneously managing today’s business while creating tomorrow’s goes beyond being ambidextrous. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Kneeland established a zero-tolerance policy for any failure to cooperate.).