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Four Ways to Grow Your Business

Chart Your Course

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. They credit their success with more affordable and effective marketing tools via the Internet, and growing support for local businesses.

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

I’ve often been destination-focused, as well, so I know leadership can be exhausting when we never take our eyes off the prize. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world.

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

I’ve often been destination-focused, as well, so I know leadership can be exhausting when we never take our eyes off the prize. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. 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.

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In China, Go for Broke or Accept that Less Is More

Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. 2 in the market.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. The fall can come quickly.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.