Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you… but what he (or she!) In today’s dog-eat-dog environment, a person’s word isn’t always his or her bond.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Startups can tap the venture capital market. Corporations can go to the general capital markets by issuing stocks or bonds. I call this idea "innovation capital markets," and it''s a system that''s a hybrid of venture capital, general capital and corporate budgeting. The event was a huge hit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? Mostly attitude determines how far we can be bold to this subject. Just addition to what i said previously.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

One of the chief concerns that any entrepreneur may have when considering an IPO is that they are effectively selling their company. There are many instances where entrepreneurs take their companies public only to later end up being thrown off the board of directors or fired from other executive roles. Buying versus selling.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 One of the areas where I think Bill has unique insight has to do with how leaders and entrepreneurs can build support structures. billion to $60 billion during his tenure. for the past 36 years.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

small business owners had finally stabilized, there’s cause for entrepreneurs to be optimistic. Towards this end, tomorrow’s smart and successful entrepreneur will have their bases well-covered on these five fronts in particular: 1. Instead, focus on crowdfunding and non-traditional lenders such as Bond Street, Kabbage and Deal Struck.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. “I’m an entrepreneur through and through,” he would say. Now Vera was getting worked up.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. In fact, now is an especially good time to consider tax diversification, especially in light of the 3.8%

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