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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Central to the project is the belief that there is an entrepreneurial mindset, which is capable of thinking creatively, being open and curious, acting courageously, having self-motivation, and ensures one takes responsibility for both oneself and for those around you. . ” Broad horizons.

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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. He found me through his network, contacted me through Facebook, and we started and completed a project for him. Recently, his company needed a web designer. Who do you think I will do business with?

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

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To Close a Deal, Find a Champion

Harvard Business Review

In a previous article, I wrote about the triangle of players involved in getting a major project green-lighted: Champions, Blockers, and Decision Makers. These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization. Making better decisions.

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The Faustian Bargain of Online Services

Harvard Business Review

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. The concept of irony was, after all, invented by the Greeks.). Also, use social networking sites on your own terms.

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Lots of Companies Still Have No Senior Executives Who Are Women

Harvard Business Review

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. That hasn’t happened.