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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Starting your own business may be on your bucket list, but any entrepreneur would confess that it is no easy task. Being an entrepreneur is a 24-hour job and extremely demanding on your time in the early days; however, there are many benefits of becoming an entrepreneur that makes the hard effort worthwhile. Stay ambitious.

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Categories : Books for Businesswomen , Female Entrepreneurs , Female Executives , business development Contact Sylvia Lafair, author of Dont Bring It To Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success at sylvia@ceoptions.com. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting.

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

Harvard Business Review

What value that cannot be protected will be replaced in the form of new business opportunities for entrepreneurs who can design solutions to pressing problems. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like? The answer varies by location.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

And that is part and parcel of professional life. “You need to be able to connect the dots between [your customer’s] business needs and their personal needs,” says Damian, a former NFL player turned entrepreneur. ” But that notion is outdated. “Selling is moving somebody else to action,” he says.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

.” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 million jobs. There are subtle, yet significant, changes happening already.

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