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Disgust, Dissatisfaction, and Determination: Fuel for Growth

Skip Prichard

Positive thinking gurus would not have approved. And, while disgust and dissatisfaction can be powerful initial motivators for change, we need to transition from these negative emotions to a more positive mindset eventually. Let’s take Sarah, a finance executive I met through social media.

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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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5 Challenges of Starting a New Business From a First Time Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Find someone reliable, someone with a similar work ethic, someone with the same ‘failure is not an option’ mantra. It’s up to the Founder to rally the troops and keep the team motivated and positive. Constructive criticism may well be your best asset. Finding advisors and mentors.

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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. Goal: Take that hill – Objectives: taking out the bunkers, machine gun nests, and other fortified positions that stand in your way of taking the hill.

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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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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world? These findings suggest that a shift in managerial approach may have a constructive role to play in alleviating sweatshop labor conditions. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs.

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

Harvard Business Review

Or as Igor Linkov, a coauthor, posits: "Can we design our countermeasures in a way that no matter what the threat is we still manage to do our best to recover fast?" Then it was owned by a California billionaire who built resorts and eventually tried to construct a wind farm, which provoked protests.