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7 Tips To Keep Your Business Legally Compliant And Secured

Strategy Driven

You must market your business, provide timely customer service, innovate, hire and manage staff, and ensure your business is legally compliant. The excise tax you may have to pay also depends on the kind of business you operate. Get Surety Bonds. The surety company offers the bond. But no two surety companies are equal.

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Connecting with Abrasive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Bond, Ed.D., Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation. More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment. Guest post from Cheryl A. They are perceived as bullies, jerks, prima donnas, and worse.

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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Leadership

Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. Good insurance and vacation time won’t cut it anymore; people are seeking flexibility and remote options because many need to be caregivers or provide support to children who are e-learning.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center.

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What We Can Learn from One of the World’s Most-Mocked Cars

Harvard Business Review

The car’s interior was cramped and uncomfortable, and the steering wheel–mounted gearbox required exceptional dexterity to operate. The Trabant was so full of blatant faults, so lacked functional appeal, that it actually inspired a peculiar emotional bond in its owners. Take the example of Disney. Let’s recap.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions. Distributed Database. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.