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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs? What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? What would your family think of your decision?

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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

As our lives and marketplaces change all too rapidly, past career decisions can become obsolete or even dangerous to our wellbeing. With the experience of your first career to draw on, you should know what you enjoy and what you could learn to do. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career.

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. If a program has a low cost per student but fails to actually help people forge a solid career, then the fact that the failure is cheap does not make it any less of a failure.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Simple : Whether the new idea is intended for your organization, vendors, suppliers, partners or customers it must easy to use.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

Over 70% of freelancers have trouble getting paid at some point in their careers, according to research by the Freelancers Union , the non-profit group, that promotes the interests of independent workers. .” And yet, even if you do everything right, clients can still be frustratingly late with their payments.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.