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5 Characteristics of an Entrepreneur Bound for Success

Strategy Driven

This helps in strengthening the bonds and also motivates the employees to do better. Risk managers. Yet another characteristic of successful entrepreneurs is that they are risk managers. They know the potential risks associated with business and always take calculated risks. Learning from experiments.

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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.

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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

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. 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. .”

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.