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Transforming Tension: 4 Ways to Navigate Difficult Conversations

Strategy Driven

Practice Managing Your Emotions During difficult conversations, we can gauge and control our own emotions, but we can also manage our reactions to other people’s emotions. Our minds and bodies are connected, and one function our brains have is to manage how much energy is budgeted toward emotional expression.

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How to source funds to expand your business

Strategy Driven

To seriously consider angel investors, you must first have an exit strategy for your business and solid projections for the future. However, to participate in crowdfunding , you need to know the rules and requirements of the sites and carefully review your options before you proceed.

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Government Funding Can Elevate Your Business: But Know What You’re Getting Into

Strategy Driven

In some cases, you might also be asked to participate in PR efforts, giving press interviews or meeting with government officials. Plan ahead, and have an exit strategy if you don’t receive grant money in the future. You’re expected to provide regular reports, which means a lot of paperwork and a large time investment.

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Investing in Mortgage Foreclosures

Strategy Driven

For investors to succeed in the foreclosure (FCL) market, they should study over time the strategies and tactics adopted by other successful investors. They allocate their time and resources into making appropriate market contacts in order to create a competitive advantage over the myriad of other market participants.

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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

Employees now participate in company profits, which can be significant financially, and the owner gets partial or full liquidity. The short answer is, if you own a profitable company and a culture that is worth maintaining, the company is worth owning, particularly by employees.

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How to Be Successful in a Toxic Culture

Lead from Within

Keep your distance from activities you don’t respect unless you feel your voice can make a difference, and don’t participate in gossip and backstabbing. Being able to speak to the work you do and what you have been able to achieve will help you manage what is happening around you. Formulate an exit strategy.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Our organizations created a unique financial arrangement that mirrored a joint venture (basically, an “earn-in” opportunity for RIC to participate in the inpatient income stream), but Silver Cross retained its rehabilitation licensure.