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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Although you may have ambitions to work for yourself and be your own boss, it can be extremely difficult to manage if you’ve had no prior experience in the business world. However, you must visualize disappointment as a constructive experience for future growth. Develop long-term business relationships. Stay ambitious.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. Make it a stretch.

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Why You Should Question Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

The truth is that most leaders don't know how to develop a useful picture of their organization's culture, which is why they resort to platitudes. By making these differences concrete and conscious, they were able to have a constructive dialogue that led to ground rules for decision-making.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. For those who decide to build in flood risk areas, construction teams will be able to use modular materials that can be disassembled like Lego pieces. What will this adaptation look like? The answer varies by location.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Municipal governments seek to plan development in terms of decades, while insurance companies are reticent to move beyond an annual time scale when assessing property risk.

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How to Earn Your Manager’s Respect

Harvard Business Review

Whether you have a new manager or have worked with your current boss for years, what can you do to make sure your boss appreciates what you bring to the job? A recent HBR study of nearly 20,000 employees around the world found that the most important thing that workers want from their managers is respect. What the Experts Say.

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