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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

As much as they want to take the leap on the inside, many leaders resist because their definition of entrepreneur is just too narrow. Cooking might not be your thing, but maybe you’re incredible at leading strategic meetings, designing marketing plans, building teams, or keeping finances well above board.

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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Aerospace Engineer. Personal Finance Advisors. According to the BLS data, only 9.9 It is the same in roofing and flooring.

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. Inside ROPE teams provide another important benefit.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company.

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Don't Just Tell Them - Tell Them A Story

Chris Brady

Children ask for stories to be told them but resist direct instruction. Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear.

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High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance

Harvard Business Review

They represent the logical extension of a topic that’s captured the attention of a lot of great business minds for some time: the ongoing battle between those who view companies through the lens of building something, and those that view it through the lens of finance. Well, it’s becoming increasingly hard to resist that pressure.

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