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How Hard Do Company Founders Really Work?

Harvard Business Review

The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” While the literature suggests that entrepreneurs work very hard, it doesn’t exactly say that they never get out of the office to relax. That may be because I am a founding CEO.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.". While that was a fictitious scene, it was the type of statement that would make anybody raise an eyebrow.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

Leading Blog

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). We experience change in four phases. The first is panic.

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