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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

One of their proposals would be the development of a Sovereign EU Tech Fund to address the shortfall in funding that undermines the growth of startups across Europe. The report reveals that 22% of startups fail not through a lack of investment but rather through poor marketing. Alternative investments.

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Diversity Doesn’t Have To Come With Productivity Trade-Offs

The Horizons Tracker

The study proposes a fresh way to think about the kind of diversity we have in our teams and our workforce, whilst attempting to reconcile this basic dichotomy between having a homogeneous yet productive team, or a diverse and innovative one. Cultural diversity. These were then used to train an algorithm to identify clear patterns in words.

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Going Digital – How Small To Medium Businesses Are Winning With Cloud Solutions

ExactHire - Leadership

The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. Just under three-quarters of senior professionals stated this was because there were insufficient resources for the proposed project.

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How Companies Can Champion Sustainable Development

Harvard Business Review

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. The problem is that the private sector is not easily organized to create or bolster public goods.

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How Much Time Do Sales People Waste?

Strategy Driven

objections, no call backs, stalls, no appointments, no response to appointments or proposals, unwillingness to speak, no purchase) Or from attempting to offer a solution that folks might not know they need. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Or know they need but haven’t figured out how to get buy-in.

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Your Leadership Development Program Needs an Overhaul

Harvard Business Review

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. ” Develop: Let them improvise. What works instead?

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New Leadership Must Inspire New Talent

ExactHire - Leadership

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. 50’s – 60’s (The Military Commander) Organizations were run from top-down.