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Cultivating an Environment of Entrepreneurs within Your Organization

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Guest Blogger |
Entrepreneurship - Management |
Fri, 12/04/2015 - 20:14

Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, University of Phoenix School of Business

Entrepreneurship is not just reserved for business owners.

While many workers still dream of being their own bosses, today employees are also leveraging their entrepreneurial talents inside their organizations to be “intrapreneurial” at work. Companies that embrace this spirit and create entrepreneurial environments not only benefit from the ideas that are generated, but potentially a more loyal and engaged workforce. In fact, a University of Phoenix School of Business survey [i] finds the majority of workers who are satisfied with their jobs, work in organizations that provide entrepreneurial opportunities (61 percent).

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Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent

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Marc Spector |
Strategy - Small Business - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Mon, 11/30/2015 - 22:09

Top talent is crucial to your company’s success. Without it, you’re not in business. That’s why no task on a CEO’s agenda is more important than recruiting and retaining top talent.

In today’s employment market, that takes work. A recent survey from the society for Human Resource Management found that 59 percent of HR executives list recruiting and rewarding the best employees as the biggest challenge their organization faces over the next decade.

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The Most Important Team You Lead

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Craig Ross |
Self Governance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership |
Tue, 11/24/2015 - 21:49

With the holidays here, we will soon find ourselves outside of the office as leaders and members of a different type of team. Apart from serving as CEOs of our organizations, we are also children, parents and siblings. We are cousins, aunts and uncles, and friends to others.

As you take time to reflect on the importance of and the successes you’ve experienced with your teams ask yourself how you can become a stronger leader and team member, both in and out of the office with the following questions:

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Why Smart Managers Make Stupid Decisions

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Dianna Booher |
Strategy - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:51

Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one that wrecks a project or destroys the morale of so many people.

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Go Out Strong

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Anthony Zolezzi |
Strategy - Entrepreneurship - Leadership |
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 01:41

As I got up and started my morning, I told my plants and rocks what we had accomplished for humanity yesterday, and I asked them for guidance for today. Looking around I also realized that a white orchid that has been with me for two blooming cycles was doing its best to hold it together. It seemed tired and I could tell it was not its perky self. But it was blooming and giving me one more show before it moves on to the next phase of its regeneration.