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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

He then founded Crescendo Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Catalyst, a private foundation supporting Colorado-based nonprofits and micro-lending in the developing world. He is the author of Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepreneurial Habits and a Roadmap For An Exceptional Career. www.shortcuttoprosperity.com.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

When they developed relationships with the clerks on each ward, they received more accurate information and were able to do a more efficient job of cleaning. Still most of his tasks — managing schedules, developing contracts, reviewing documentation — involved working alone.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture. So why have some of the hottest new businesses been throwing out this idea in favor of going it alone?

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

Hospira is an advanced contract manufacturer. The United States pioneered the concept of contract manufacturing organizations in the 1980s when Japan was a fearsome economic power and Western companies were realizing they could no longer rely on the vertically integrated production philosophy that dated to Henry Ford.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. .” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

TruTouch, based in the United States, has developed and is commercializing a sensor that instantly detects a person's blood-alcohol level with the touch of a finger. The company's contract manufacturer, Colorado-based Vergent Products, will fill orders from value-added resellers and for pilot programs with potential new OEM partners.

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