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The Entrepreneurial Odyssey: Benefits of Business Ownership

Business Consulting Agency

Building a business involves constant innovation, from conceptualizing unique solutions to market needs to developing groundbreaking products or services. Job Creation and Societal Impact Small businesses play a pivotal role in job creation and economic development.

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LSA Global Delivers New Biotech Leader Training for Scientists in Europe

LSA Global

Leading in a Dynamic Environment Commit to critical “ways of working” habits designed to maintain focus and high impact results – clear line of sight , navigating stakeholder requests, meeting effectiveness , and your role in driving change. The new manager training results were: 93.5% Job Relevance 97.6%

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How to Get Yourself Invited to Important Meetings

Harvard Business

In a work culture with too many meetings, we often look for tactics to get out of meetings. But sometimes you need to get into a meeting, perhaps because the decisions made there will have implications for you or your team, or maybe because you feel you’ve been left out of important discussions. MINCHU/Getty Images.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business

The rationale for this approach is highlighted when you compare, for example, the different approaches to M&A employed by a number of legacy pharmaceutical companies and by some relatively newer players in the biotechnology industry. For example, Gilead grew from a tiny startup developing H.I.V.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

Most leaders struggle to find and develop the ready-now talent they need. But should leaders even bother spending time trying to develop employees and plan for the future, given the turbulence in the labor market and uncertainty in the world? Development investments do not always deliver on promised results. Holding, T.,

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Why Women Feel More Stress at Work

Harvard Business

In one study, female and male MBA students were paired and asked to negotiate the purported purchase of a biotechnology plant. Develop the habit of finding a humorous aspect to the difficult, stressful, frustrating events during the workday. A good example of this phenomenon is negotiation. ”