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Why the “F” Bomb Shouldn’t Be Dropped

N2Growth Blog

While both perspectives cover some of the same ground, the article in The Journal hedges a bit too much for my taste. If that isn’t bad enough, the use of vulgarity has pervaded the business world to the extent you’re hard pressed to get through the day without having to deal with it in some form or fashion.

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First Impressions Define Your Success.

Rich Gee Group

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. Hygiene Pay attention to your body - make sure your hair is perfect (mine is easy), that your smells are not too over-powering — shower, antiperspirant, a little cologne/perfume. Again, thanks for the good advice. Smile or Die!

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The Top 15 Shows That Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Watch

Strategy Driven

Inspired by the bestselling book ‘#GirlBoss’ by Sophia Amoruso and based on her start-up story, this Netflix original shows how Sophia went from broke to running the multi-million dollar fashion empire, Nasty Gal. If you want a lesson in power struggles, Billions is the one of you. Set in New York, it tells the story of the U.S.

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Three Strategies for Long-Term Value

Harvard Business Review

At least one powerful type of shareholder is not diversified, doesn't seem to care about ethics or social responsibility, and prefers to hold shares for at most two or three years. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds. This means that hedge fund interests clash with those of long-term, diversified, prosocial investors.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And Icahn, like Buffett, no longer has to worry about what is probably the biggest barrier to value-investing success — clients who abandon you when value falls out of fashion. He didn’t know whether we made nuclear power plants or French fries.

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How to Brand a "Useless" Degree

Harvard Business Review

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Graduation season is upon us — and that means approximately 700,000 U.S.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S. Chaos — and the broader catch-all, complexity — became an enormously fashionable economic topic for a few years.The physicist-founded Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico was the center of this work. — at least for another couple of weeks.