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Burn the Business Plan

Leading Blog

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. Many entrepreneurs who started their own careers in large corporations regarded them as critical to their subsequent success. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The reason?

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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. The presumption is that one has to sacrifice entrepreneurial dreams in order to be successful at a specific career choice.

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A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait

HR Digest

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. Throughout my career, I had the opportunity to work in so many aspects of our business, from day-to-day restaurant operations and training to operating the business as a small franchisee.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

Stephen Curry has built his NBA career on taking shots that others don’t: three-pointers from a crazy distance. Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Listening, engaging, reciprocating – have earned us 2 billionaire backers, 4000+ franchising inquiries & 300+ stores now in development (launched franchise company in Fall '09). link] Robbie Vitrano Hey Mike, thanks for including NakedPizza in the validation. Humbled, validated and taking nothing for granted.

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