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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. Taking the time to determine what structure fits your company best will help ensure that your finances stay in check. If the answer is yes, then shoot for the stars. Say goodbye to your 9-5.

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The Delicate Art Of Persuading Your Boss

Tanveer Naseer

Be a bobble head and nod in agreement– after all, push-back could hurt your career. Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. The finance guy or gal is usually a convincing choice. There’s the camp that would say back down, after all that’s why she get’s paid the “big bucks.”

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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. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential.

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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. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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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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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

These countries have excellent research systems with a high number of influential scientific publications, relatively high levels of government and business R&D expenditure and venture capital financing, strong public-private collaborations, and a wealth of intellectual assets in patent applications and community trademarks.