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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 25, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Make sure that the mentor is aware of what you want from them e.g. cashflow advice. Develop a network of mentors you can rely on for good advice.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

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As of 2009, Lester is cancer-free. “I Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. Then, in May 2008, he became the 18th pitcher in the history of the storied Red Sox organization to throw a perfect game. Be everything you want to be’.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/03 by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 03, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

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Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 21, 2009 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Martin Russell Said on December 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am I would say that usually BIG changes shouldn’t be creative ones. In fact, you should welcome it.

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Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

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I already tried doing QA but I find that I spend more time telling the people or mentor them on how to correct a certain issue to get the job done. The truth is unless you have an employee working for your people that you outsource don’t seem to pay attention to details much. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business | THE SMALL.

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 3:38 pm and is filed under SME-Blog. « Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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