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AVIXA’s Heidi A. Voorhees on Thinking Differently

Startup Professionals Musings

EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. FAVORITE THING ABOUT MY JOB My experience is in association management and events/trade shows. Voorhees, CAE. and Eved).

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

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Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement

Duct Tape Marketing

Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Todd Rammler, president and founder of Michigan CFO Associates.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Often former government employees, at the level of GS-15 and below, will leave as staffers and return the next day working for large Beltway contractors, working or managing the same programs they previously worked. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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Damaged Pure Michigan Brand Impedes Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Pure Michigan is a Damaged Brand. As a Michigan resident I’ve followed the developments in Flint with a mixture of horror, sadness, outrage, and confusion. The focus of this post is about the damage that has been done to the state of Michigan’s brand, Pure Michigan. Pure Michigan is (or was) a brilliant brand.

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Why an MBA can be hugely beneficial for budding entrepreneurs

The Startup Magazine

One of the best aspects of studying for a course like the online MBA Michigan is the sheer breadth of topics that you get to cover. For example, this could be marketing, management, accounting, international business, or entrepreneurship. What topics does an MBA cover? Choosing Your Course. Why Choose an MBA? Building knowledge.

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