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Tailored Executive Coaching for the Entrepreneur: Vision to Victory

N2Growth Blog

This absence of a pre-existing framework can lead to a sense of uncertainty and heightened pressure. Additionally, the entrepreneur must constantly adapt to rapidly changing market conditions and emerging trends, which requires a high degree of agility and resilience.

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5 Most Important Leadership Competencies for Function Leaders

Center for Creative Leadership

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. We work closely with many leaders who are running functions or divisions in large organizations.

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The Job Market for MBAs is About to Take a Hit

Harvard Business Review

If you’re graduating from business school this spring, you might want to be sitting down for this: the job market for recent MBA graduates looks poised to get a lot worse in 2014. Which brings us to MBAs: The market for new MBAs has been hit hard. The total contraction in the market for new MBAs will approach 25 percent.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Eight Communication Traps That Foil Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

In each country, following recent elections and referendums, they are facing political, social, and economic uncertainties we would never have imagined just a year ago. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. When the market recovered, we were therefore poised to seize the opportunity.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Categories : Finance , Guest Posts 1 Comments 1 Tweets that mention A Couple Reasons to Smile About :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm [.]