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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

These relationships are critical if an organization needs to adapt to changes in the external environment, as many organizations and their supply chain leaders have had to do amidst recent global events. Regular performance reviews should be conducted to evaluate the CPO’s progress toward these goals and provide constructive feedback.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

Coaching Tip

In addition, deflation is causing payrolls to be slashed by five percent or more; not just in the bubble categories of construction and finance but also in manufacturing, retail, wholesale, transportation, and information technology. Jobs have been lost and hiring is slow almost across the board.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. It transformed my business and career. When you get down to brass tacks, all business boils down to people (employees, customers, partners, investors, vendors, etc.), and people mean relationships.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies. And it all starts in school.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. He recently edited Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.