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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Gordon Berridge: What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? On with the interview.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Half the people who work in this country either own or are employed by businesses with fewer than 500 employees. But these things are not enough.