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Creating More Reginald Lewises, Lonnie Johnsons and Mary Spios
Though Elijah McCoy was born to fugitive slaves, he trained as a mechanical engineer and became a prolific inventor, owning over 50 patents. One of these products was so superior to others of its...
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Is This the Most Bullish News for Oil Since 2014?
By Leonard Brecken for Oilprice.com Whiting Petroleum announced earnings on February 24, with probably the most bullish and shocking news to come to the oil patch since the crash started in June 2014....
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Fabulous Woman: Mika Brzezinski
Introducing our Fabulous Woman Series This Business Protocol column will also regularly profile top tier, truly exemplary women business leaders who share their personal stores and advice. They reveal...
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Success In Business Begins And Ends With "HELPING PEOPLE!"
It is a fact that there is a lot of money to be made in growing your own business. But when you reduce it down to its essence, business is really all about helping people.Helping people solve their...
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Karma in Action: 5 Reasons Companies Should Give Back
What goes around comes around. You've heard it a thousand times, and it's rarely true. There's no real justice in the world. Bad guys often win, sometimes precisely because they are horrible,...
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Good Change, Bad Change, and Buy-In
Don Draper, the fictional advertising guru on the television show "Mad Men" said, "Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is." Good luck convincing your team, customers, or vendors of that. Leaders...
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Tell Me More About How Much You Hate Millennials, You Old Fart
If I hear one more middle-aged person tell me how good I have it because I was born in the '90s, I'm going to literally barf so hard I shoot backwards across the room. Thank you, you reptilian artifact...
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Harness the Awesome Power of Client Retention -- and Watch Your Business Soar
In our quest to continually attract and bring on new customers, we tend to forget the importance of keeping our current ones loyal. Existing customers can have a tremendous impact on the health of our...
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The Perils of Being an Aussie Realtor
On a hot summer's day our property manager went out to inspect a vacant house in the suburb of Bardon in Brisbane's inner west. The home is at the base of Mt Coot-tha Forest. He walked up the steep...
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7 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Your First Business
Statistics from Bloomberg make poor reading for entrepreneurs. 8 out of 10 business owners will fail within 18 months. This goes for everyone starting a lemonade stand to those attempting to join the...
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The Leadership Wisdom of Larry Lawson
What do those who work for Larry Lawson say about him?"He encourages people to set a high bar so that when they clear the bar, they've really accomplished something and made an impact on the...
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Subprime gets bad rap in 'Big Short' but is key to easing affordability crisis
Jaime Luque, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAnyone who's dug into the 2008 financial crisis knows the role that bundling and selling subprime housing loans played in bringing the world to the brink of...
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The 19,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room
As two extension deadlines came and went for the EB-5 Regional Center Program at the end of 2015, it became clear that meaningful reform for the program would have to wait. Ultimately, the program's...
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It Pays to Be Nice: How to Create Must-Read Content
Are you spending countless hours clacking away at your keyboard, publishing blog posts and articles and getting nothing in response except the sound of crickets? Here are a few tricks of the trade to...
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The Case for Greek Startups
During the long and deep crisis in Greece some businesses have done well. Tourism as a whole grew, and so did several segments of food and beverage. In other industries, a few isolated companies were...
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Best Cash Rebate Rewards Credit Cards of 2016
This article is Part One of a Two-Part Roundup of the Best Cash Rebate Cards in 2016. The second article will be published soon and will link back to this first article. Part of the beauty of credit...
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Are you Mentorable? How to Prepare to Receive Guidance in Your Business
Taking over a business, whether planned for years or, in my case, unexpectedly, is a difficult challenge. I couldn't have done it alone, and thankfully, I didn't have to. My employees helped me learn...
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How to Define Your Personal Brand Using Storytelling
One of the best and most exciting methods of breathing life into your brand, and adding excitement to your content marketing approach, is storytelling. While brand storytelling is not a new concept,...
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The 6 Laws of Minimalist Marketing
Marketing has become extraordinarily complex. The last decade has introduced countless tactics, methods, techniques, processes, systems, strategies, forces, algorithms and trends into the marketing...
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How a Class Project Became a $455 Million Company in 10 Years
In February 2006, David Rusenko embarked on a classroom project to help a friend create a website for her astronomy class. 10 years later that 'little' experiment has turned into a $455 million dollar...
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