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How to Decide if Contractor Material Financing is Right for You

Strategy Driven

As an entrepreneur in the construction industry, you might find yourself juggling a backlog of accounts payable, a stack of past-due invoices from suppliers and new projects in your pipeline that require even more equipment and materials ASAP. How Does Contractor Material Financing Work? Here’s a helpful checklist: 1.Are

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Is It Really Possible For The Next Silicon Valley To Emerge In A Small Town?

The Horizons Tracker

For many years, innovation was thought to be a matter of agglomeration. The study found that this tipping point appeared to come when the population of a city reached around 1.2 It’s a logic that has long existed, however, and it’s unlikely that innovation will become completely detached from physical space.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano (PublicAffairs, 2019) The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. There's a better way. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The following tips will help to more effective handle conflicts in the workplace: Define Acceptable Behavior : You know what they say about assuming…Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in avoiding conflict. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach. I Think Not.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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