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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. Get Surety Bonds. Surety bonds are essential regulatory tools to keep your business legally compliant and secure. The surety company offers the bond.

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How to Be a Real Leader And Great Manager

Lead from Within

Leaders focus on motivating people while managers focus on tasks, systems and structures to provide inspiration. The success of leaders is measured by the relationships they develop and how they can engage and bond with people. 3. Leaders seek to innovate while managers look to copy. 4. Managers tend to avoid risk.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. Catastrophe bonds are high-yield bonds, sponsored by local governments and issued by reinsurance companies, that do not pay out in the event of a catastrophe.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Manage With a Portfolio Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Portfolio management is conventionally associated with financial strategies: Instead of putting all of your money in one place, you spread it around and create a diverse portfolio of different types of investments — stocks, bonds, small-cap, large-cap, domestic, international, etc.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace. Internal diversity.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After assuming office, for example, Mnangagwa successfully negotiated with the African Export and Import Bank to provide support for importers, as well as US$ 300 million in new guarantees to allow the central bank to increase printing of “bond notes” – a substitute currency that locally has the same value as the U.S.