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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

B LACKSTONE chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has written a book about the potential that can be realized when you combine personal responsibility with ambition. This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. His determination and creativity make for a good read.

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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

While there are many technical and legal steps you need to complete to open your doors for business, this article is focused on the personal qualities necessary to be a CEO. Owning your own business has a steep learning curve and every day will have its own lesson. Make sure you’re ready.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful. The Key to Success Success or failure in social media is nothing more than making a simple set of good choices.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.).

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Different operational skills. Doing so presents its own risks.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.