11,298 articles on "finance"

When Politics Prevent Innovation

When Politics Prevent InnovationOr… Still Fighting Battles and Losing WarsThe objective is to beat the competition and make money. Everything a business organization does should be focused on that simple objective, with interpretation through vario...

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It's Okay To Negotiate - REALLY!

Sarah is a young woman who attended one of my sales negotiation training programs shortly after taking a new job. When I asked her how she did with her salary negotiation, she replied, "Well, I didn't negotiate. I was offered $44,000 and I took...

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Keep Business Reports Brief

Keep Business Reports BriefBy Arthur Cooper(c) Copyright 2004 The point of a business report is to communicate information, or an opinion, and sometimes to persuade or convince. To do this effectively the two keywords are brevity and clarity.When you...

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Making Mistakes.

MISTAKES.Don’t worry about making mistakes.Everyone makes mistakes.Why should you be different.The person who never made a mistake, never made anything.Mistakes can be costly. They can also be educational.Look upon your mistakes as an asset.Life i...

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The Diamond Cutter Buddhist Sucess Model

Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton graduate and a Buddhist monk. After graduation, he spent seven years studying the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. At the suggestion of his teacher, he joined a fledgling diamond business in New York to test his ideals i...

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Finding Balance In A Tilted World

I was recently talking with one of my entrepreneur friends. He has started three businesses in the last several years—a budding entrepreneur. He was relating some of the joys he has experienced in those enterprises: a sense of freedom from the corp...

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Small Business Q & A How To Tell If Your Amazing New Product Idea Is Really Worth Gambling On

Q: I have a great idea for an amazing new product. There is nothing like it on the market and no competition that I can find. I think it will be a huge success and so does everyone I tell the idea to. I'm willing to bet the farm on this one. Wha...

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Small Business Q & A There Are No Dumb Business Questions, Not!

Q: I'm curious. What is the dumbest business question you've everbeen asked? Norris W.A: Shame on you, Norris. There is no such thing as a dumb business question. OK, that's not exactly true. There are dumb business questions and I do ...

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Narcissism in the Boardroom - Part I

The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often remote-diagnosed them as "malignant, pathological...

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Public Relations Mixup

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 885 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2003...

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