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Harvey Mackay

I ran my first marathon after my fiftieth birthday.  I've run nine more since then, including the New York and Boston marathons.  I'm proud of that fact for a number of reasons, not because I ever came anywhere close to finishing first, but that I finished them all.
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Harvey Mackay

Gordon Dean was an American lawyer and prosecutor whose distinguished career was fairly typical for Washington types.  He went to work for the Justice Department under President Franklin Roosevelt, taught in the law schools at Duke University and the University of Southern California.  He was appointed as one of the original commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1949 by President Harry Truman, eventually becoming its chairman from 1950-53.
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Ivan R Misner

  Every business should have a CNO, but you don’t have to hire one. You just have to take on the “CNO mindset!”
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Jayaram Krishnan

As in the earlier parts of this series, our focus is on the bootstrap entrepreneur who may not have a fixed and firm business plan, who funds his business through modest and limited savings of his own, and has no major advantages, such as patented killer products, or a captive customer who will pay a profitable price. If you do happen to have some or all of those advantages, however, this could still be useful!  
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Harvey Mackay

In ancient Greece, Alcibiades was telling Pericles how Athens should be governed.  Annoyed by the young man's tone and manner, Pericles said, "Son, when I was your age, I talked just the way you are talking." Alcibiades looked Pericles in the face and replied, "How I should like to have known you when you were at your best."
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Jayaram Krishnan

This is a true story, which illustrates a rule rather than an exception, but of a rather less apparent and seemingly paradoxical aspect, of professional growth. It may help you to strengthen yourself or your team members, while they are going through tough work situations and assignments, and see the light at the end of the tunnel...
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Jayaram Krishnan

In the first part of this series, we talked about all the things you don’t need, to become a successful entrepreneur (“exploding the myths…”); so now, let us focus on the things you do  need. These essentials apply all the more strongly, if you do not have a watertight business plan, an existing killer product idea, strong funding and ready customers.
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Balaji Pasumarthy

Defenders of the status quo at newspapers, book publishers and the magazine industry are in a panic. Some are even misguidedly asking for government regulation or a bailout. All three industries are doomed (if doomed means that they will be...See original: But who will speak for the trees?
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Jayaram Krishnan

“Kuch karna hai, yaar, bahut pak gaya…” – roughly translated from modern Hindi, and meaning, “I’m fed up, I need to do something (meaningful)…” an oft-repeated sentence by organization employees who want to start their own businesses, build their own organizations, and become the masters of their own fate (at least to a slightly g
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Balaji Pasumarthy

In this fascinating article in the Time Magazine, 'Should Kids be Bribed to do well in School' an experiment is conducted in various schools to see if there is any impact on grades and learning if kids are paid money.The study has some very interesting insights into incentives and what type of incentives work. Different  types of incentives wher

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