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Entrepreneurship and the Money Myth
There are many myths in the venture business -- I alluded previously to the myth of U.S. VC value add -- but I was reminded of another one today. The myth? That access to money matters.
The Importance of Empathy in the Workplace
An article of 1210 words describing empathy as an ability to connect and relate with others in building and managing healthy relationships.
Should You Target Competitive Keywords, The Long-Tail or Both?
Should your SEO strategy (1) tackle the most competitive vertical keywords (2) pluck the low hanging fruit of the long-tail or (3) employ a combination of both? after deciding which strategy suits your sites ultimate objective, the mental model of the target client and amount of time and content required to accomplish the goal, what are the pros and cons of each tactic?
Networking for Introverts
Networking is always a popular career topic, and the reason is simple: the people you know and those who know you will have an enormous influence on your personal and career success. If you're an introvert and the very thought of networking makes you want to dive for the nearest rabbit hole, that statement may provoke panic. But keep breathing, because networking doesn't have to be painful -- not even for introverts.
What is the Value in your Supply Chain A PI Q and A
Member Question: What is the difference between Supply Chain and Value Chain? My Response: To begin, the reference to supply or “value” chain is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture. This is a term that is on its way out as an organization’s supply “practice” is actually centered on the synchronization of diverse stakeholders sometimes spanning multiple supply networks. This is an important distinction given the impact that real-world synchronization has on theories such as value chains. That said the concept of the value chain was first introduced by Michael Porter in 1985 in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.

6 Tips for Understanding Words that Trigger Behavior
I know there has been a real increase in the interest of keyword research recently since I was speaking about it at the Toronto SES Conference. Keyword forensics is the term I coined after I wrote an e-book about the methodology I use to research user behavior. With this methodology, you quickly begin to notice specific keyword phrase clusters that are very telling about the conditions in a searchers life. The reason you want to dig into this is so you can understand what initiates the search and what the searcher is looking for and then you can find the best windows of opportunity for optimizing a keyword phrase for top organic ranking search visibility. Have you ever wondered about writing styles for your Web page that literally trigger behavior and compel visitors to respond?
Public Sector Procurement Practice and the Principles of External Economies, Clustering and the Global Value Chain
Can the public sector effectively apply the principles of External Economies to its procurement practice? “External economies of scale (ES) occur outside of a firm, within an industry. Thus, when an industry’s scope of operations expands due to, for example, the creation of a better transportation network, resulting in a subsequent decrease in costs for a company working within that industry, external economies of scale are said to have been achieved. With external ES, all firms within the industry will benefit.” (What Are Economies of Scale? By Reem Heakal, January 2003)

Access to Finance: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises
The starting point for a Focus Group Discussion was an exercise whereby the participants were asked to write down constraints they had encountered in growing or trying to grow their enterprises. These responses were printed on cards, which were placed, in clusters of similar constraints, on the wall for all to see. They became the starting point for more in-depth discussions and were used to reflect the groups' main concerns.

LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GLOBAL LINKAGES: ENABLING CONDITIONS AND CONSTRAINTS
What do entrepreneurs need in order to invest successfully in manufacturing? At a basic level, particularly if they are traders thinking about moving their capital into a fixed investment, they need a political and economic environment with a certain degree of stability and predictability and some incentives, or at least the absence of strong disincentives for investment.
Expanding the supply of finance through the non-financial private sector - Increasing SME Access to Finance: A Four Pronged Approach
Financial institutions are not the only source of money for SMEs. Apart from remittances by nationals working abroad, which are a key boost to private-sector growth, the interdependence between SMEs, large firms and sectoral “clusters” is a major potential source of finance, as shown in Asia and Latin America.
5 C's of Body Language
We often forget how powerful body language is in our communications. We are constantly sending and receiving numerous signals from each other as we interface. There are over 30,000 cataloged gestures and facial expressions that constitute a robust language. Most of the time we read body language cues automatically, but sometimes we do make a conscious effort to decode meaning from gestures.

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Using Technology To Strengthening Team Ties
When team members are separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, even the simplest of leadership tasks requires careful thinking, as Malhotra, Majchrzak and Rosen discovered through their research. The authors followed a virtual team at Boeing-Rocketdyne through its entire life cycle, and then did a large-scale follow-up study in which they attended meetings of 55 successful virtual teams in 33 different companies and interviewed team leaders. Finally, they boiled down their observations and conclusions into six clusters of recommendations, which are briefly summarized here.

SEO - Outsource or Do-it-your-self?
It is widely recognized that SEO can have an enormous impact on any web-based business - no other internet marketing process has the potential of yielding such huge results for such minimal investment. The right keyword clusters can drive millions visitors per month to your web site. If brand management is important for your success, a strong SEO program should be your very first priority. If your website can fly, so will do your business.
10.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Networks Clusters and the Octopus: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
While networks and clusters contribute to business success and continuity, the African entrepreneur experiences difficulties establishing and maintaining effective business networks and clusters (Barr, 1999; Kiggundu, 2001; Ramachandran & Shah, 1999).

Expanding the supply of finance through the non-financial private sector - Increasing SME Access to Finance: A Four Pronged Approach
Financial institutions are not the only source of money for SMEs. Apart from remittances by nationals working abroad, which are a key boost to private-sector growth, the interdependence between SMEs, large firms and sectoral “clusters” is a major potential source of finance, as shown in Asia and Latin America.
Networks and Global Linkages
An entrepreneur seeking to enter industry faces high transaction and learning costs. Networks are one way in which entrepreneurs reduce search costs while also lowering the risks of embarking on a new venture. Industrial districts, or clusters of contiguous and often related enterprises, are one way in which networks form. However, today, in an increasingly competitive world, networks need to be global.

7.5.2 Social capital, community organisations and NGOs: Institutional design and capacity building
Another key issue is that most of the poor do not have access to the wider social networks that are usually needed to sustain new enterprises. Since enterprise creation is fundamentally a social rather than a technical process, appropriate steps must be taken to create and nurture social networks. A closely related concern is the need to develop 'industrial clusters' within the informal sector (see Schmitz, 1997).
Access to Finance: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises
The starting point for a Focus Group Discussion was an exercise whereby the participants were asked to write down constraints they had encountered in growing or trying to grow their enterprises. These responses were printed on cards, which were placed, in clusters of similar constraints, on the wall for all to see. They became the starting point for more in-depth discussions and were used to reflect the groups' main concerns.

Cluster Development and the CAC (PWGSC): Facilitator or Competitor?
The original intent of my research for this posting was to determine how the global reach of Consulting and Audit Canada (now called Government Consulting Services under the PWGSC banner) could be used as a vehicle to develop strong domestic clusters that could then be leveraged to deliver products and services internationally.

Easy Keyword Forensics using Google Data
Your average keyword researcher will tell you the importance of researching keywords. The term "keyword forensics" is more about exploring user search behavior, than just keyword phrase clusters alone. What's new about exploring keyword forensics? One of the newest ways I have discovered is 100% free (thanks to Google.)
How Corporate Mentoring in the Workplace Strengthens Employee Relations
Have you ever looked around your business and thought that there was something missing? Have you ever walked into the employee cafeteria to see clusters of your staff - the same small clusters that form in individual departments? If you have, or if you’ve simply noticed that the more that there are generational divides among your staff, you need to know that mentoring in the workplace could be the tool that brings everyone together.
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