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Made in Missouri: James Cash Penney is Born
“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity,” J.C. Penney once said. “I was forced to come up the hard way.” From being born on a poor farm in Missouri to creating a company that today brings in sales in excess of $19 billion, Penney indeed managed to overcome the odds. Today, the J.C. Penney Company has become an international success for its sales of clothing, jewelry, shoes, accessories, and home furnishings. However, that was the result of a long and uphill struggle for the young entrepreneur.

Lesson #4: Cutting Costs Can Save Your Company
Penney was born and raised on a small Missouri farm. His father, a Baptist minister, was a well-respected member of the community. But, as it was an unsalaried position, the family rarely had the wealth to accompany that status. As a result, Penney grew up in a household that stressed the importance of self-reliance and self-discipline, especially when it came to financial matters. Penney took that attitude with him into the business world. Indeed, much of Penney’s success can be attributed to his willingness to penny pinch wherever he needed to.

An Unwitting Entrepreneur - My Mom
But I do believe that the very same spirit of self reliance, resourcefulness and entrepreneurial thinking is more important than ever. The country is hungry for it. You’ve probably read the biblical references to teaching people to fish rather than simply giving them a fish
Razban Golden Rule 1: The 10% that Changes 90% in Empowering Managers
The 10% can over come 90% concept is desribed here as a trusted way of empowering managers to succeed.
How to recreate yourself by identifying, packaging, and marketing transferable skills to a different industry and guarantee steady employment.
In the business world we have a short list of traditional sources of interdepartmental friction. One of these "hot zones" is the intersection of HR and managers, who can easily find themselves at odds.

Personality Assessments - They Still Don't Get it
On the heels of these three articles: * Personality Assessments for Sales - The Definitive Case Study * Exposed - Personality Tests Disguised as Sales Assessments * Sales Assessments vs. Personality Assessments Episode III - The PHD's Strike Back I got the following email forwarded to me. As you read it, just look at the descriptors that the client is referencing in the personality assessments - they are not sales descriptors so, in essence, we have another examples of an assessment that claims to be measuring one thing but is actually measuring another:
How to Avoid Five Common Problems Concerning Corporate Training
A main consideration for hiring decisions is the urgency to fill a vacant seat. This common problem forces managers and owners of companies large and small to bring aboard employees who may lack the competence to thrive on day one. Yet even though this phenomenon has been occurring for years, businesses still lack quality training programs that will help employees make a difference to the bottom line. There are several reasons for this and I will list five of them here with recommendations for how to avoid them.

What's high school for?
Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:

Why every business needs to consider generational differences
It turns out that different generations of employees respond to very different management approaches and incentives. Likewise, different generations of consumers respond differently to different marketing messages. Four generations are common in the workforce and consumer market today, and it is important to understand each. This article is indebted to the work of University of Illinois’s Extension Program and their research on engaging generations.
VI. Module III: National, Regional, and International Support
Microfinance initiatives are more likely to succeed in a supportive national, regional, and international environment. Applying a systems’ perceptive, poverty eradication is recognized as a multi-scale endeavor with different partners participating at the local, national, regional, and international levels. Whereas the foregoing discussion has focused on microfinance lessons for the local level, this section will broaden the scope with lessons that scale up through the state to the global community.
Just Remember…“Guys” Buy Stuff Too
You may not have noticed it but the other half of the population likes guys ...they just don't "like" them. Even the best of us are OK to have around sometime but women are always trying to remodel us. Big difference is women have better role models and even when their role models are bad they're good! Just remember guys make decisions too - when the woman says he can, And hey we buy stuff...lots of stuff!

2.1 The rise and fall and rise of private sector: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
At this point in Tanzania’s history, the culture of entrepreneurship is in need of revitalization. During the years of colonial rule in the country, the development of indigenous entrepreneurship was hampered. Tanzanians of African origin were mainly employed as laborers in cash crop farming, with limited access to business.

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Team Building Team Challenges
Today, quality initiatives, superior service, cost of doing business and succeeding at doing business are commonly shared ownership issues. Reliance on individual experience and competencies and even greater reliance on fragmented cross-organizational work units can actually prove prohibitive to achieving these
9.3.3 Other micro-finance providers: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
A number of NGOs also do micro lending, some of them predominantly oriented towards women-owned MSE clients. During the Tanzania field visit, interviews were held with the Tanzania Gatsby Trust (TGT) and the Zanzibar Fund for Self Reliance, two examples of such NGOs.
Do “High Tech” and Hospitality Belong in the Same Sentence?
The author discusses how the dispensation of true hospitality is compromised by an over-reliance on technology.
Retail Security
Retailers are facing a greater number of ever more sophisticated threats in 2009 due to evolving technologies, increased reliance on computerized systems, and the down economy. They need to take serious steps to secure their businesses, including their data.
Microfanchising and Economic Self-Reliance
How microfranchising has the potential to promote economic self-reliance and alleviate poverty.
Leveraging the Power of Markets with Microfranchising
Microfranchising is a market-based approach to help alleviate poverty and build economic self reliance.
Personal Responsibility: What Entitles You?
... What I got to take away with me was a bloody leg, a great story to tell, and another pointed object lesson on the power of maintaining an attitude of self-reliance and personal responsibility.

Growth is a highest calling of leadership.
Reliance having punch line of “Growth is a way”.
An Unwitting Entrepreneur - My Mom
But I do believe that the very same spirit of self reliance, resourcefulness and entrepreneurial thinking is more important than ever. The country is hungry for it. You’ve probably read the biblical references to teaching people to fish rather than simply giving them a fish
Do You Have a Backup Plan in this Age of Turmoil
What would you do if your sole source of income dried up tomorrow, asks Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz? Read this short post to understand that self-reliance with alternate sources of income is the only way to survive and thrive in the Age of Turmoil that we have entered; several strategies are presented for consideration.

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