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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

In return, these small businesses often look to governments for assistance, from cutting bureaucratic red tape to providing financial incentives such as tax breaks. In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%).

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Complimentary Resource – The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward

Strategy Driven

Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Recommended Resources – Freakonomics

Strategy Driven

Steven and Stephen reveal that economics is simply the study of incentives and that by understanding incentives one can reveal the hidden truth about why people behave as they do and the results consequently achieved. Freakonomics examines the commonly held myths surrounding: Campaign finance. Crime rates. Child-rearing.

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The larger the fund, the larger the fee stream.

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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?

Harvard Business Review

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. But where do incentives come from?

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. While the managed care movement made a similar run in the early 1990s, the movement towards accountable care, bundled payments , and other population health efforts have not caused the type of backlash that managed care did