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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. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. He doesn’t ask, he just does. A burned out leader is useless.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. And that is part and parcel of professional life. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often?

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The first approach requires the creation of an internal consultancy to the business units, asking them to identify needs or opportunities that your team should work on, and agreeing that at a certain point, you’ll hand over projects to them once they’re ready to move past the testing phase. Reward decision-makers who back winners.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.