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

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Small Businesses Faces Sharp Rise in Cost of Health Care : As Congress nears votes on legislation that would overhaul the health care system, many small businesses say they are facing the steepest rise in insurance premiums they have seen in recent years. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes

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Oh, and get the mentoring and personal access to make it happen as safely as possible. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Martin Russell Said on December 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am I would say that usually BIG changes shouldn’t be creative ones. This way big change doesn’t have to mean big risk.

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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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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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. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! « Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage?

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Keeping Track and Keeping Up: Are You Focused?

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« Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor Top 5 Tips for Paying Yourself » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 8:00 am and is filed under SME-Blog. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! By keeping them top-of-mind you’re more likely to stay focused.

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