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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Be transparent and proactive about your expectations and goals for the future, especially if you would like to hold the top job in the future. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. “Acknowledge that, and then work your butt off.”

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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

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. billion annually in currency operations costs. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change.