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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? She is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a business degree in finance, investment, and banking. Focus on the Why. To learn more visit, www.freeman.com. Follow Janet on LinkedIn.

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Women in Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Women on Business

With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Invest in New Business Ideas. These are well worth participating in and supporting.

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Women on Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Strategy Driven

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. These are well worth participating in and supporting.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow.

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How to Fall Back in Love with Your Job

Harvard Business Review

“Try instead to find the things about your job that make you eager and engaged,” whether it’s brainstorming with a small team, or interacting one-on-one with clients. We have a tendency to fixate on the aspects of our job that make us miserable, which can make us feel even worse, says Spreitzer.

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