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6 Smart Investment Decisions To Make As An Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Minimizing losses increases profit-making potential as scarce resources are being put to good use. A vast majority of entrepreneurs, 80% to be precise, fund their enterprises out of pocket, and managing cash flow is a major challenge as most have no prior business cash flow education. But you don’t have to be a part of this statistic.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL.

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A New Way to Rate Retailers on Providing Good Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Companies that follow a good jobs strategy design and manage their operations in a way that allows them to achieve high employee satisfaction, high customer satisfaction, and high productivity simultaneously. Some include depreciation of inventory; some don’t. Some include promotional expenses; some don’t.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Could we treat workforce training and other investments in employee skill and well-being similarly?

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Allows businesses to take a 100% depreciation write-off for investments in certain new business equipment in 2010 and 2011. The bill reduced by 2% the amount of Social Security tax an individual employee would be required to pay. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2% tax on their income (up to $106,000 or so) as opposed to the normal tax of 6.2%.