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What are the Best Green Business Ideas?

Strategy Driven

This can also include creating a sustainable fashion brand, which uses organic cotton and other eco-friendly fabric fabrics. From upcycled furniture to creating products out of recyclable materials, there is a vast amount of DIY projects that you can try your hand at. Eco-Friendly Travel.

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Top 10 Office Colors for Productivity

Strategy Driven

Blue has even been said to cause the body to produce relaxing chemicals. Yellow is thought to be connected to optimism, cheerfulness, and communication, making it the perfect addition to an office that specializes in marketing, sales, or public relations work. It is said to create a confident yet relaxing work environment.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. The question as to whether it’s our job to make our employees happy comes in and out of fashion over the decades. Don’t you think?

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies try to expand wherever rapid revenue opportunities lead them, diversifying into new products, entering new markets, expanding through mergers and acquisitions, or investing in organic growth (which often means stealing market share by releasing products or services similar to those of your competitors).

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A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy

Harvard Business Review

The concepts of lifetime employment and generous employee benefits are seen as old-fashioned throwbacks to paternalism. When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. My own workplace is an example.