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Amazon Announces “Pay to Quit” Program for Employees

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Organizations make significant investments in training new employees - building their understanding of strategy, culture and priorities. Yet, after efforts at engagement have been exhausted, a win-win exit strategy, such as the one employed by Amazon and others, can be a positive solution to a potentially negative situation.

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5 Key Fire Safety Measures for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

If you are unsure about how to go about this, try consulting experts at a fire protection services company like APFE. Plan and Practice a Fire Exit Strategy. Every business or office should have a sound fire exit strategy and this should be practiced regularly. Train Staff in Fire Awareness and Safety.

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Early Exits - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. This is called the exit. Basil Peters, a famous angel investor wrote a book Early Exits - Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (and maybe not VCs).

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I Want to Start My Own Business But How?

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Although you may have a pretty good idea of how you want your organization to look, you won’t have a detailed guide on how to structure, run, and grow it without creating a business plan. If this is your first time starting a business, you probably don’t know how to write a solid business plan. About the Author.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

A certain phrase has gained currency in my world lately: the notion that a social enterprise must have an "exit strategy." Sadly, there are also the investors who don''t exit at all: the international NGOs who become a permanent feature in a country, seemingly doing little more than sustaining themselves for decades.

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Nurture Entrepreneurs in Africa

Harvard Business Review

In the last few months, the number of entrepreneurship workshops and trainings in Africa has increased. Investors cannot put money into most ideas because the exit strategy is limited. Rather, they should invest time to find how to monetize their ideas and use the revenue to grow. Building free apps hurts local industry.

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What Are You Not Good At?

Harvard Business Review

So I quit banking and started my own communication-training firm (because I'm a great talker and I never wanted to look at an accretion/dilution analysis again). If you know you can succeed without learning how to sell, write a business plan or stage a press event, then by all means, run with it. Life is too short to just get by.