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10 Questions
By: Time magazine
Don´t miss out on this incredible opportunity to ask your favorite personalities any question on your mind. Diversified celebrity and newsmaking personalities such as Meryl Streep, Daniel Radcliffe, Bill Keller, Robert Kiyosaki amongst others come together in a irresistible conjunction of wise thoughts and great facts.
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Failure Is a Constant in Entrepreneurship
By: Scott A. Shane
As a professor of entrepreneurship, I am often asked about the survival rates of new businesses. Students, entrepreneurs, reporters and many other people want to know how many new businesses live and die.
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Are Depressions Necessary?
By: Christopher Hayes
Economists, particularly those of the ascendant Chicago school of free market enthusiasts, were in a triumphant mood at the beginning of this decade. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in 2003, Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas went so far as to say that macro-economics — with its focus on [...]
How to Grow Your Business When Everything Else Is Shrinking
By: Scott Morgan
Budgets continue to be slashed. Brands are disappearing. Media is getting more fragmented. The only thing getting bigger is our federal deficit. So as a marketer, how do you capitalize on a world that is getting smaller in so many respects?
You could ignore it and keep doing things the same way — [...]
Welch: 'No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance'
by: The Wall Street Journal
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jack Welch has some blunt words for women climbing the corporate ladder: you may have to choose between taking time off to raise children and reaching the corner office.
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance,” Mr. Welch told the Society for Human Resource Management’s [...]
Best Advice I Ever Got; Two Lies; Worst Advice; Stimulus Package for Growth Firms
By Verne Harnish
“…keeping you great”
HEADLINES:
Best Advice I Ever Got — Fortune magazine produced a wonderful series featuring the best advice people like Tiger Woods ever received in their life. For Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, it was to “hire [...]
Offshore Outsourcing: Pay Attention to Foreign Exchange Rates or Pay the Price
From: www.cio.com
– Stephanie Overby, CIO
July 09, 2009
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There are many matters to consider when setting up an offshore outsourcing deal—scope, location, roles and responsibilities, service levels, governance plans and price, just to name a few.
The effect [...]
Facts always win, right?
By Seth Godin
If you’re selling a business to business service and you can prove that it’s better, that it delivers more value, that it’s cheaper or more durable or more efficient, shouldn’t that mean you will close every sale?
Even hard-headed business people end up buying the thing they want, not the thing they necessarily [...]