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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. This is when the patterns generations old of being a pleaser or martyr show up. In the following video you can get a sense of why it is so hard to change behavior. But is there a video?

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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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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. Thanks to technology there are a wealth of tools and software you can use to make the process easier.

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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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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing.

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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.