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Management. Your Business Depends on 2 Promises, 1 Principle and You. It was an idea worth dreaming. You believed in it enough to put your money and your energy behind it. You believed in the business, in the needs, in the demand and in the solution. You built an organization and a team around that belief. Now it’s time to do a little more. #1: Will you keep your word? In Make a Promise and Keep It, Diane Helbig says: “A promise speaks to who we are in our core.
Diane speaks about the promises that we make to ourselves and provides a few solutions to help us be accountable for what we say we will do with our lives and businesses. And if promises are as powerful as Diane says, then it’s time to make one about your marketing. #2: Will you spread the word? Your business will not market itself. To tell your story in a way that attracts and retains customers;to identify the problem and the people, then provide the solution. Ivana Taylor, in 13 Marketing Activities You Can Do for Less Than $20 A Day, offers a simple marketing promise for you to keep. Peter Drucker And The Five Deadly Business Sins. Leadership. There Is Big Money In The Underground Economy. It’s the second largest economy in the world. Within the decade, it may sustain two-thirds of the planet’s workers, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and even rival the United States. But it’s not China: It’s the bazaars, vendors, and informal markets of the world.
Robert Neuwirth’s new book, Stealth of Nations, reveals the dealings of back-alley capitalism. And unlike the austerity of the developed world, it’s doing pretty well. After several years living in the slums and cities of Brazil, China, and Africa, Neuwirth argues the world’s governments should embrace informal (and mostly legal) markets as an alternative form of economic organization. "This is the do-it-yourself economy of the world. Neuwirth borrows the term System D, coined from the French-African word débrouillard for a resourceful and motivated person, to describe "the ingenuity economy, the economy of improvisation and self-reliance.
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