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Discrimination is an Equal Opportunity Offender

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Mark Henricks of American Express Open writes: A 2010 paper by a University of Colorado Denver Business School researcher found that attractive women encounter discrimination if applying for positions that are deemed “masculine” roles, such as director of finance or construction supervisor.

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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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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

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Beginning on January 1, 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will group people by the actual number of weeks of unemployment, up to five years. Source: The New Yorker, January 3, 2011. Jobs have been lost and hiring is slow almost across the board.

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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

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While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. The good news is that CEOs without vision will take care of themselves in short order, as they simply won’t survive for long.

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How To Create Lasting Influence | N2Growth Blog

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Not only is true influence not difficult to acquire, but it is also sustainable when you understand the proper constructs. Ill-gotten gains will always be exposed for what they are, and moreover, they will never be worth the compromises that were made in order to achieve them.

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Don't Just Tell Them - Tell Them A Story

Chris Brady

" The reason his answer failed to answer, so to speak, was he was forcing me to construct my own picture from data that, although apparently clear and meaningful to him, was nothing more than numbers to me. See you in columbus David Marold TEAM Explosion Posted by: David Marold | January 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM Excellent article!

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