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A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Brigette Hyacinth

It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy. A good boss is without a doubt, one of the best incentives to keeping staff, happy and engaged. It becomes difficult to continue to feel passion for the job once you see a lapse in integrity in your boss. 7 Worst Bad Boss Behaviors.

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5 Clues That You Are Ready To Leave Your Corporate Job & Work From Home

Women on Business

With 85% of all new home based business created by women, the success rate and the financial freedom is a lucrative incentive to weight out the pros and cons of leaving your corporate identity. Women are much more highly approachable to adopting to change and leveraging their past success for future gain in any area of their lives.

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Nurture Entrepreneurs in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Investors cannot put money into most ideas because the exit strategy is limited. Another big challenge is Africa's immature intellectual property rights environment, which continue to stifle incentives for invention. Why invest in something that can be copied without any consequence?

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Avoiding the Soft "Yes"

Harvard Business Review

But since most people''s incentives are tied to delivering against the core business, they''ll likely nod their heads and agree to help out — but prioritize the tasks they feel they''re being paid to do over the pursuit of uncertain ideas. Consider creating an exit strategy in case things don''t go according to plan.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

This is a nascent sector where entrepreneurs and investors are still figuring out business models, developing new financial products, and proving exit strategies and exit multiples, and only a handful of players are using agreed-upon metrics for assessing social impact. First, impact investing needs time to develop.

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Permission to Fail

Harvard Business Review

There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. On the basis of both estimates, the risk is either rejected, or approved with a specific sizing algorithm, monitoring plan and exit strategy. People with unpopular ideas about risk may be eliminated or marginalized, depriving the organization of essential diversity.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

For example, we openly stated a preference for an institution that would be willing to partner with us for at least 10 years, and we included specific language about exit strategies. Our partnering skills were maturing, so we became more precise in our evaluation process and expectations.