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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. Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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The CEO of Children’s National Health System on Leadership, Innovation, and Delivering Specialized Care

Harvard Business Review

Kurt Newman became a pediatric surgeon because he was attracted to the innovative culture and the extraordinary variety of problems doctors encounter at children’s hospitals, as well as the dramatic recoveries children can make. The payback is so meaningful that it draws people who are creative and innovative and thinking differently.

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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If the Auditors Sign Off, Does That Make It Okay?

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, recently completed a six-year prison sentence for his part in the scandalous deception that hid Enron's financial troubles from investors. He told himself his actions were systemic, it is the way the game is played. All who cared to know knew.

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.