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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. Stay ambitious. Develop long-term business relationships.

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Why You Should Question Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

However when managers can better articulate the behavioral patterns that constitute the culture, they can determine which behaviors facilitate results — and which behaviors should be avoided. 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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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. The company’s president convened a meeting of the executive management group to organize the improvement effort. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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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. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas.

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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. When valuing these rebates, Re:focus relies on Risk Management Solutions’ modeling software to accurately judge how much a project reduces disaster 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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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands. Which is exactly the kind of business that Jeff Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon over the past decade.

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