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Disgust, Dissatisfaction, and Determination: Fuel for Growth

Skip Prichard

The key is to acknowledge and use these emotions as a starting point, then shift towards a constructive and optimistic outlook. Let’s take Sarah, a finance executive I met through social media. It’s through recognizing, accepting, and acting on these feelings that we can truly transform our lives and careers for the better.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business Review

” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. However I took great care of the team I had on my own outside of their quarterly bonus. An idividual either has it or doesnt. a 12 month project.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission. Vision never drives mission. impact the competitive arena.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

Then it was owned by a California billionaire who built resorts and eventually tried to construct a wind farm, which provoked protests. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does." You will be paid a lot more to forget your uneasy feelings."

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."