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Building a Coaching Culture in Your Small Business

Thin Difference

It takes time and energy, two things often in short supply in small businesses. By building a high-performing team , your business will be far more likely to weather industry storms and succeed long-term. By taking these important steps, you can improve your team’s efficiency, engagement, and skills long-term. Who Should Coach?

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. There’s no 911 to dial for white-collar crime.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. In short, microfinance is necessary but not sufficient to truly move the needle and get women more directly involved in national economies.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. Sure, machine learning and deep learning are powerful techniques with important applications, but, as with all buzz terms, a healthy skepticism is in order.

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The Inevitable Disruption of Television

Harvard Business Review

Rogers, who spent much of his early career studying the adoption of agricultural innovation, aptly pointed out that many innovations are slow to see adoption not for lack of appeal but for lack of an appropriate ecosystem. People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications. But destruction will come slowly.

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