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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

Vans is way more than just another shoe company; it’s a worldwide influencer that’s still striking a chord with up-and-coming generations. Fortunately, leadership is all about influencing people and the future toward a greater good, and that has entrepreneurship written all over it. The best part?

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14 Years In, What I’ve Learned.

Rich Gee Group

Suggested reading: How To Win Friends And Influence People Plan for the ups and downs of work and money. Suggested reading: Small Business Finance for the Busy Entrepreneur: Blueprint for Building a Solid, Profitable Business Fail often, fail forward. My opinion — deal with them and move on. Forget about them. And then move on.

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover. link] mikemyatt Thanks for sharing your insights Joe – spot-on as usual.

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How Credit Card Companies Make Their Money

Strategy Driven

We may think we are above the influence that stress has on our finances, but studies indicate the contrary. The ease of credit card use can spell trouble for more impulsive buyers , which highlights the importance of knowing yourself and the ways that you tend to deal with feelings like anxiety. High-Interest Rates.

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Battling the Physical Symptoms of Stress

Harvard Business Review

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. However, it cannot distinguish between a saber-toothed tiger in the wild and a harsh email. Steve should have been celebrating. Our stress response system evolved to protect us from danger.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

The core argument to compel institutional investors to change how they influence companies and where they invest their money is simple: as the world pivots away from carbon-based energy to avoid devastating climate change, fossil fuel assets, like coal plants or off-shore oil rigs, will be “stranded” — a wonky term for “worthless.”

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

Actually witnessing capture in the wild is different, though, and the new This American Life episode with secret recordings of bank examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York going about their jobs is going to focus a lot more attention on the phenomenon. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.