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The Best Tools for Starting a Small Business

Strategy Driven

By investigating the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors, you can identify gaps in the market and unique selling propositions that can set your business apart. Thus, framing your business idea and conducting comprehensive market research are the first crucial steps toward starting a successful small business.

Tools 101
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4 Key Differences Between a GOOD Leader and a GREAT Leader: It’s All About Connecting!

CEO Insider

As an investment management leader for over 30 years, I learned that GOOD leaders follow obvious leadership practices. However, GREAT leaders learn to think differently.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy).

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

Kodak leadership missed a number of innovative opportunities in the past. In 1975, two years after I was recruited from my eight-year career at Kodak as a marketign specialist, Steve Sasson, a Kodak engineer, created a digital camera. Develop Leadership Skills: A Reference Guide. Film is unnecessary. Related articles.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Are You Aware Of The 3 Approaches to Strategic Planning?

The Empowered Buisness

Your business has very limited resources in terms of people, time and money to devote to a more comprehensive strategic planning process. You expect or foresee major changes in the internal and/or external environment of your business sector over the next year or so. Systems Focused Approach to Strategic Planning.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.