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Achieving Longevity Through Entrepreneurial Thinking

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Small Business - Entrepreneurship - Management |
Mon, 07/04/2016 - 20:49

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Jim Dewald, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, and author, Achieving Longevity

Businesses fail. They fail fast and they fail often. Research indicates that over 50 per cent of new firms fail within five years, and 75 per cent are gone in ten years. So what is different about the firms that survive? The answer is that they are the firms that are successful in recreating themselves, in continuing to engage entrepreneurial thinking on an equal footing with strategy.

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Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress

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Shelley Row |
Strategy - Small Business - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Sun, 07/03/2016 - 22:29

Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress

As a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from long work hours with no end in sight. Stress can leave you irritable, tired and short-tempered. That is not a good place to be for CEO-level decision-making.

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Keep Your Eye on the Horizon: Four Considerations for Healthcare Startups

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Small Business - Entrepreneurship |
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 19:06

Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health Wildcatters

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses. That means 14 percent of the population consider themselves entrepreneurs!

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Are You a Chronic Multitasker?

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Cynthia Kay |
Small Business |
Tue, 06/14/2016 - 01:59

I have always prided myself on being a great multi-tasker. I have been known to work on writing a script while listening to an employee tell me about a day out in the field. I have worked on invoices while listening to a webinar. I am writing this as I sit on an airplane traveling to a business meeting.

Most of us have been taught that it is important to get as much done as possible, to be efficient and the best way to accomplish that is to do several things at a time. In short, to multi-task.