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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

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. 2 Comments 1 Jen Gresham December 13th, 2010 at 12:00 pm Interesting post.

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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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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. Its even 100% free! Speaker Bringing Ideas To Life.

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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 Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. All of this is right, as far as it goes. Regard just as valuable evidence that a project won’t pan out as evidence that it will.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In Paris, an endeavor to reclaim the word “entrepreneur,” has seen the city open its doors to attract foreign talent with a recently launched tech visa aimed at encouraging foreigners to incubate startups on the city’s eastern edge. million jobs. There are subtle, yet significant, changes happening already. billion in 2014.

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