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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Are you ready to turn your career into a 24/7 lifestyle? When you eat, sleep, and breathe your career, time becomes a lot more valuable. It should be no surprise that starting a business costs money. Not to mention there are plenty of startup and ongoing costs required to keep your company afloat. Say goodbye to your 9-5.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. " Ron [link] mikemyatt Hi Ron: Thanks for the comment. Our Freedom.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators.