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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

Whether you are a potential new business owner or someone who has been in the game for years, you knew how your industry operated before, and you at least had an idea of how to navigate within that system. Some of the most successful companies don’t just change how they operate within an industry but switch industries altogether.

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Top Tips For Starting A Courier Business

Strategy Driven

Despite this demand, a lot of people are unsure about whether or not they ought to venture into setting up a courier company or business. If you set up an office in your home, contact your local zoning office to make sure that you are legally able to run a business from your home, according to local laws. Organize Office Space.

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The Importance of Risk Assessment in Business

Strategy Driven

Risks are part and parcel of everyday life. By identifying those risks, you’re able to set up procedures and processes to either avoid the risk altogether, minimize its impact or help your business cope better. Legal liability is reduced, and the stability of your operations increases. What Does a Risk Management Plan Entail?

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Following are a few links to other posts that deal with these topics in greater detail. maybe sincerity [link] Taariq Lewis Mike, as always, a great follow-up with great insight and additional resources. Thanks for commenting.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? I Think Not.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. The philosophical divide is this: When VCs invest in an early-stage start-up, they recognize that odds are, the company will fail. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

.” Time and again, the people we talked to about authentic organizations told us that the old world of corporate secrets is over, and that organizations are still trying to catch up to this reality. The old practice of “covering up” no longer works. At the social level, two phenomena coincide. Spin backfires.