Fri.Apr 05, 2019

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Driving College Student Success With Board Management Software

Board Effect

It’s often said that students are our future leaders. The origin of that statement dates back to the original purpose of establishing colleges and universities. During the days of the early settlers, the focus was primarily on farming and many young people weren’t able to attend college, or perhaps didn’t want to. In those days, colleges and universities were established to educate young men and prepare them to become leaders or elected officials.

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The How – and Why – of Event Marketing for Small Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In a recent report, Frost and Sullivan found that live events are worth $500 billion. In case you are wondering, this is huge, and B2B marketers are investing 20-30% of their budgets on event marketing each year. The only problem with this is that while most marketers say that event marketing is their top strategy, businesses are still struggling to leverage profits and gain conversions post event.

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How To Be A Leader When Machines Are Smarter Than You

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay The majority of business professionals I meet these days accept that we are now deep in the digital age, where mountains of data are gathered on everything we do, online and offline. Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and use it to hone their intuition and improve their business leadership.

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5 Reasons I Love Boring Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. “Making it” is relative. In my 20+ years of entrepreneurship, I’ve seen a big change in how success is defined. Entrepreneurs nowadays want to boast about brand-name investors, huge rounds of funding, and a team of high-skill employees. Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation?

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The Modern Shape and Trends of Employee Culture

ReadWriteStart

Peter Drucker (1909-2005), the late Austrian-born management consultant, once famously said that culture eats strategy for breakfast — i.e., while a sound business plan is excellent, nothing is more important than a company’s culture. That philosophy, later adopted by Ford Motor Company president Mark Fields, is still fully embraced by C-Suite denizens today.

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3 Security Considerations When Starting A Home-Based Business

YoungUpstarts

There are many types of home-based business, and not all of them need home security. But if you’re operating an active business out of your home where you’re housing inventory, clients come and go, or employees are working in your home, a security system is critical. A home-based business also comes with risks of personal injury or cybersecurity attacks.

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Four Self-Improvement Tips For Consultants

YFS Magazine

Master these self-improvement tips to cultivate the best version of yourself and show up for your clients as a consultant that walks the walk.

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Why Your Website Isn’t Bringing You As Many Visitors As You Want

YoungUpstarts

If you build it they will come, right? Actually, in the world of the Internet, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Simply building a website isn’t enough to ensure website success. To ensure your website brings (and converts) enough visitors to meet your goals, your website needs to be strategized from the ground up. Just like when building a house, a good foundation is key.

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The Top 8 Things Your Employees Want to See in Their Working Space

Our Own Start-up

Here are the 8 main things your best employees want to see in their working space.

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Starting a New Business? 3 Tips for Staying Organized

Transformify

If you're getting a business off the ground, there are all sorts of responsibilities you need to fulfill from finding a location to getting the necessary permits. This is a lot to handle, and the best way to deal with it is by being organized. To make sure you have all your ducks in a row before you open your doors, follow these tips. Batching. All of your various duties can become a lot to keep track of.

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