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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 65 – An Interview with Ed Reilly, editor of AMA Business Boot Camp

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 65 – An Interview with Ed Reilly, editor of AMA Business Boot Camp explores today’s management and leadership challenges and the fundamentals that will help those in these senior positions achieve ongoing career success. Prior to joining AMA in 2001, he was Presidetn and CEO of Big Flower Holdings, Inc.,

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. Define your role and career path. ” Create separate spheres immediately. Have a backup plan.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept.

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Should Couples Go into Business Together?

Harvard Business Review

Using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010, the study revealed that couples often establish a business together because one spouse (usually the female) has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. New research from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) looks into this.

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Don't Let Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses

Harvard Business Review

It was the brainchild of Donald Clifton , the late grandfather of Positive Psychology , but is associated in the popular culture with Marcus Buckingham , Clifton''s coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001). Like any successful movement, the strengths movement drove a single issue and inevitably left out a lot.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.