Online Learning Tips for the Ambitious Manager

May 24, 2010

A Guest Post by Alvina Lopez So you’ve decided to take the plunge with an online education. You’ve followed the necessary steps so throughly summarized in a recent Daily MBA article about pursuing an online degree. Even if you’ve already gone through the whole brick-and-mortar, traditional university experience, it helps to be forewarned that the [...]

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From Whiteboard to Company

May 17, 2010

It takes a tremendous amount of discipline, luck and skill to move your great idea off the whiteboard and into a viable company. Ideas are plentiful and the discipline to weed out your bad ones will leave many a promising idea on the trash heap. This culling effort can take many forms but the best [...]

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The Best Online Education Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

May 10, 2010

A Guest Post by Anna Miller Gone are the days when you could succeed at building your business and making a success out of it without a formal education. Yes, it is still possible to learn through experience and sustain what your predecessors started, but if you’re looking to tap your entrepreneurial spirit and take [...]

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Book Review: The MBA Oath

May 6, 2010

Management as a profession is relativity young. Not until the industrial revolution did the concept of managing large organizations even matter. This prompted the business tycoons of the time to invest in institutions that would create the next generation of business professional. One of the first business schools was Harvard. It officially opened it’s doors [...]

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How to Manage Without Micromanaging

May 3, 2010

A guest post by Melissa Tamura Effective managers not only build teams and lead them to success; they are effective business coaches as well. Their role has evolved from simply driving the workforce to meet quotas into an approach that brings people together in an atmosphere that encourages creativity and solidarity. Talented managers know how [...]

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6 Steps to Finding a Teacher, Mentor or Coach

April 30, 2010

Every once and a while, we all need a little help. Maybe not everyday. Maybe not even once a year but at some point, we will rise to our highest level of incompetence. The best way to deal with this scenario is to develop a network of teachers, mentors and coaches that can assist you [...]

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How to Attract, Motivate and Retain Startup Talent

April 20, 2010

Attracting top talent is challenging. Motivating talent is a fine art. Retaining talent can boarder on superhuman. Throw a startup in the mix and those three tasks take on higher importance. Top talent has their pick of exciting startups so yours has to stand out. Attraction Startups are unique in that they attract a certain [...]

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The Fun of Guest Posting

April 13, 2010

I have been (at least for me) doing a lot guest posts lately (list to follow). For those of you who don’t guest post (or accept them) you are missing out on a world of fun and excitement. Seeing Your Name in Lights When people corner me at parties and ask me what’s the best [...]

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Celebration Of Knowledge #6

April 7, 2010

Wow. The last Celebration of Knowledge. Great work. I hope you got as much out of this series as I did in writing it. It’s been fun. You should be proud that you made it this far. It was great that you stuck with this whole series. My hope is that you now have a [...]

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Five Reasons Why You Need The Media

April 6, 2010

By Sharon Sim-Krause “Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent,” said Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist author who lived in the 1800s.  More than 200 years later, this statement still rings true.  Organizations must find ways to communicate and convince your target publics of the worth of your missions, services and products – [...]

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