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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. What more proof does one need?

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

And, in a very different industry, Royal Bank Financial Group’s Dominion Securities is developing financial service super stores that combine investment, savings, and insurance solutions for the group’s clients. People throughout the organization will be expected to routinely make decisions once reserved for managers.

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Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West

Harvard Business Review

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Putting Customers at the Heart of Your Brand to Create Passionate Fans: What Microsoft Learned About Customer Engagement in the Sports Industry - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Microsoft

Harvard Business Review

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. In sports, every second matters.

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