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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Set reasonable and realistic goals. Especially if this is your first venture as an entrepreneur, being realistic about your goals and expectations is fundamental in maintaining your sanity. Owning your own business has a steep learning curve and every day will have its own lesson. Find a mentor.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

He learned that “if you want something badly enough, you can find a way. If you’re going to pursue difficult goals, you’re inevitably going to fall short sometimes. This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. You can create it out of nothing. But wanting something isn’t enough.

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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve. Ease of Use – The primary goal of downloading an app is to simplify tasks. The last thing you want is a software solution that has a steep learning curve.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful. The Key to Success Success or failure in social media is nothing more than making a simple set of good choices.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business Review

Unfamiliar but important tasks often have a learning curve that makes how much time they’ll take to complete unpredictable. Coming back to the password manager example, my initial goal had been to create new, strong, and unique passwords for all my online accounts, but this wasn’t absolutely necessary.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

While there will be a huge learning curve – and significant challenges – greater success and learning will come when the executive enters the assignment with a winning mindset, vs. a “good enough to get by” mindset. “You Advice: Work with the executive’s sponsor to ensure the new job has measurable goals and accountability.