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We Need To Rethink Our Mortality To Better Plan For Old Age

The Horizons Tracker

Decisions around health, work, finances, and living arrangements are all key in our latter years, and having a reasonable idea as to the likely length of our life is key to making good decisions. Of course, subjectively, men and women tend to have the same views on life expectancy, but women usually live longer, hence the discrepancy.

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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Such calls for more financial support for startups are not new, with former EU research commission Carlos Moedas arguing for an EU-run venture fund back in 2015, which eventually became the European Innovation Council (EIC) this year. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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The Idea Is Not Enough

Strategy Driven

Maple arose from an idea from restaurateur and entrepreneur David Chang and debuted in Manhattan in the summer of 2015, offering a high level of service with gourmet lunches cooked in a dedicated restaurant and delivered to the customer in a quarter of an hour. Of course, it was an economically unsustainable decision.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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What do you do when workplace ‘change’ happens?

Strategy Driven

Known as ‘drinking fountain conversation’ or ‘pity parties,’ many people, not you of course, spend 74% or more of their time griping, whining, blaming, and lamenting any sort of change. Think: health and finances. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. My mother died. I’m getting married.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, under employment, the hiring party basically calls all the shots: what the individual does, how they do their work and when they do it, what they are permitted to do and not do, what performance is deemed acceptable, and of course the rate of pay. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015.