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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Resource Management Warning Flag 3 – Marginalizing Employee Contributions. About the Author. A Budget Does Not A Strategy Make!

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. billion in management fees to NCNB. Managing the Crises , p. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. billion in management fees to NCNB. Seidman’s concerns were warranted.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

will not be legalized until 2013). banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. More than 80% of campaigns in this category have raised more than $25,000. Sure, this amount pales in comparison to the $282 billion that U.S.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.”