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Marissa Mayer: Play With The Varsity Squad. Women Need to Realize Work Isn't School - Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr. Academic institutions are churning out ever-more female graduates.

Women Need to Realize Work Isn't School - Whitney Johnson and Tara Mohr

But the very skills that propel women to the top of the class in school are earning us middle-of the-pack marks in the workplace. Indeed, a recent study found that women account for 51.4% of middle managers in the U.S. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO’s. Based on our experience, the CEO statistics will continue to improve, but only incrementally, until women recognize that the boardroom is not the schoolroom. To be successful, we must now do the very thing we were always taught not to: be disruptive. In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal’s office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success, describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. 1. Once you find problems that need to be solved and think up solutions, start talking, and especially start persuading.

The Art of the Sliding Scale, Part One: Creating Inclusion. By Lisa Rohleder, LAc One of the most powerful tools in the social entrepreneur's toolbox is the sliding scale.

The Art of the Sliding Scale, Part One: Creating Inclusion

The New Psychology of Business Models. Management 3.0 – a psychological shift You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it.

The New Psychology of Business Models

Should you follow conventional wisdom and write-up a thirty-page business plan? No. In my management 3.0 model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme.

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Mobile App Designers. Your External Hard Drive in the Cloud. How to Determine Pricing for your Products and Coaching. It’s another Expert Briefs, where I ask really smart business owners to answer your burning questions.

How to Determine Pricing for your Products and Coaching

This week I asked our panel of experts a question that I get asked often from Virtual Assistants, Coaches, Authors, and Infoproduct Sellers… “How do you decide how to price your products and coaching and what if any struggle did you come through to charge what you’re worth?” Easy-to-Follow Gimp Tutorials. Harvest Time Tracking Software - simple & online. Forget The Mission Statement. What's Your Mission Question? In a previous article, I shared five questions that today’s forward-thinking companies should be asking, based on input from top business consultants.

Forget The Mission Statement. What's Your Mission Question?

This second installment, on the same theme, presents five more questions--but with a specific focus this time. James L. Paris Christian Financial Advice: 15 Fantastic & Free Computer Programs. A few months ago I took a computer repair class sponsored by our local adult education department.

James L. Paris Christian Financial Advice: 15 Fantastic & Free Computer Programs

It was a lot of fun taking apart and fixing computers. I also picked up quite a few tips on free software that can be helpful to rid your computer of viruses, malware, or simply speed things up. Along with what I learned from this class, I have also been keeping my own list of free computer programs that I use and can recommend.

This all came together today for the purposes of this article that will share my favorite free computer programs with you. Open Office Most people need something along the lines of Microsoft Office Suite. Viruses & Malware One of the procedures I learned in the computer repair class was to start by running the free program Malwarebytes. SocialOomph.com. How to Create an Ebook Workshop. So you wrote an ebook… now what?

How to Create an Ebook Workshop

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