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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

Success

Having a plan to exit helps manage risk by reducing exposure to potential downsides if conditions change and is especially important for startups or high-risk investments that face higher levels of uncertainty.” Twitter is an interesting case study because it played out on the public stage,” Paterson notes. billion.”

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Overinflated Job Title or Complete Gibberish? Can You Tell The Difference?

Allwork

Business in the Community’s report on misleading job titles led to a social media campaign asking businesses to take action and encouraging young people to share examples of the most jargon-filled job advertisements they had noticed (using the hashtag JargonFreeJobs on Twitter). The post Overinflated Job Title or Complete Gibberish?

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Yahoo CEO on Local Content

Small Business Labs

Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. "  She is also known as a tough, demanding and skilled manager who did an impressive job as CEO at Autodesk prior to talking over Yahoo.

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How Gulliver’s Travels predicted AI and our attempts to make sense of it all

Workplace Insight

It even manages to offer up a proto-LLM in the form of The Engine, a device found in the city of Lagado, impoverished by a commitment to relentless, pointless research. And it’s identified in the modern context in this Twitter* thread by the former CEO of Reddit. He contrasts them unfavourably with the thuggish Yahoos of mankind.

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Are You Being Naive -- and Just Plain Stupid -- About Your Online Reputation?

On The Job

Last week I sent out a HARO request for my Gannett News Service/USAToday.com column asking for input on how to manage your online reputation. So, I'm going to share some really good advice and comments from online reputation management folks that I couldn't fit in my column: * "Search for your name in Google, Yahoo!

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Confessions of a Micro-Manager

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 4 October, 2009 Confessions of a Micro-Manager Who would want to work for a micro-manager? Here are some reasons I think managers can get possessive: Im not sure I can trust you. A manager has to have confidence that you know how to do your job. I never wanted to be a manager.

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Managing your Boss's Inbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 29 August, 2009 Managing your Bosss Inbox Nowadays our bosses are busy almost 24/7 and in order to cope they need our help managing their e-mail account. Your role may be just to unclutter their Inbox so they can better manage the important items. Lets enjoy our day together.©