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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

” One smart strategy is to tap an independent board member to evaluate your progress and performance so you can get smart career advice and reviews. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. . “You cannot wait for top-down guidance.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Won’t listen to advice.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Why Singapore?