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		<title><![CDATA[The Best Way To Shorten The Sales Cycle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=936087]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Customers don't create long sales cycles - salespeople do. The biggest contributor to dragging out the selling cycle is salespeople prematurely presenting solutions to customers who may not believe they have a problem, or even if they had a problem, didn't understand its impact on their business. When you boil...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Right Time To Build Your Team: Recruitment And Management Development For Growing Companies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1004915]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This process of expanding the management team can be a difficult one. That is because many entrepreneurs are initially reluctant to delegate responsibilities for their company, a business they have been overseeing since the beginning. Yet no successful business owner can continue to go it alone indefinitely. Building a management...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[True Talent Management Looks At The Family Portrait]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=378204]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You promote or hire a talented executive and learn that the whole family shows up for the assignment. Salary can be great, relocation expenses thorough, and the benefits package ideal. Yet, none of these insure that a candidate will take, or be successful in, the promotion or relocation, because if...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Developing Effective Vision And Mission Statements]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=379106]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, in recent years, vision and mission statements have become watered down in the corporate world to the point where they are essentially meaningless bringing a case of beer along on sales calls may exceed customer expectations but not necessarily help a business achieve its goals. Because of this, vision...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A New War For Talent]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=379108]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The final, and arguably most important, component of the economy is rebounding. But this is no ordinary rebound. Employers should prepare for tighter labor markets in more considered ways then simply improving their recruitment capacities. Strategic recruitment of external and internal candidates, retention and employee engagement are intricately linked and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Fire An Employee]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=380846]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Your first order of business shouldn't be showing the employee the door. It should be creating a plan of action to help the employee avoid termination all together. The organization has a pattern of sweeping incompetence under the carpet. Poor performers are placed in innocuous positions or, even worse, are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Companies More Willing To Pay Relocation Costs For Top Talent]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=356294]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Employers are increasingly willing to spend money on relocation fees to attract prospective talent, even it if means a significant rise in costs to their business, a new study shows. In a survey of hiring managers and human-resources professionals, one-third of respondents said their companies have paid to relocate employees...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Do You Love?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345578]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Your brand or any brand for that matter is the sum of all you do. It's something you earn over time by how you behave and treat your market or customers. Your brand is the mental imprint that you plant in your market's head. Like a brain tattoo, it's what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In a Cash Crunch?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Venture merchant banking isn't a new concept. Indeed, similar banks funded the voyages of Dutch ships in the 17th century. Today, venture merchant banks fund clients' trade activities such as importing and distribution. Unlike traditional merchant banks, they cater to small and midsize businesses, offering financing backed by assets, such...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Facing the Capital Gap]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174288]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With billions of dollars to manage, VC firms face a choice. They can add partners to cover more companies, or they can simply invest their cash in larger chunks. The vast majority of firms have done the latter. Most deals now range in size from $10 million to $25 million....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Striking Out With VCs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174273]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional IPOs get all the attention, but they're not the only way for private companies to tap public markets. Most of the companies that get funds through PIPEs go public by listing stock on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board, or by merging with defunct publicly traded companies, commonly referred...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Bank, at Your Service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174278]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business owners have always had a love-hate relationship with their bankers - and these relationships have only become more strained as local banks have been gobbled up by large corporations in recent years. Sure, Citigroup and Bank of America offer their clients ubiquitous branches and online banking and even prestige...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's Next: Going Medium-Tech]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174283]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Falling behind in technology is a bad idea. But getting out in front isn't always so smart either. Everyone knows that companies that resist new technologies risk giving their competitors the edge in creating better, more efficient products and services. No one wants to be left behind because of a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 10 Faces of Innovation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=267615]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is all about people. It is about the roles people can play, the hats they can put on, the personas they can adopt. It is not just about the luminaries of innovation like Thomas Edison. It is about the unsung heroes who work on the front lines of entrepreneurship...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Just a Little Bit Public]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174291]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With stock market returns mediocre at best, wealthy individual investors are increasingly eager to stake claims in well-run private companies with strong cash flow and solid revenue growth. Private placements often involve dozens, if not hundreds, of investors - most of them high-net-worth individuals - and tend to offer business...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nonstop Innovation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174282]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In theory, it makes perfect sense: Encourage employees to think like entrepreneurs - constantly coming up with ideas for innovative products and services - and one is less likely to be blindsided by competitors with newer, cheaper offerings. But many programs created to foster so-called intrapreneurship fail, usually because they're...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Angels With Angles]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=379147]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Angel investors are changing. This paper explains what they're looking for, how they operate, and because the devil is in the exit strategy what they expect for their money. The phrase "Angel investor" conjures up a vision of some kind of saintly benefactor willing to take a flier on some...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employee Development Still Informal In Most Companies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=347464]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 84% or two-thirds of human resource professionals do not use structured employee development programs. Instead, they rely on informal and generic training processes in their organizations, according to a survey released yesterday by the Society for Human Resource Management and Catalyst, a research and advisory organization. The survey showed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategy By Design]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=345747]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Managers understandably prefer continuity to discontinuity, evolution to revolution. What you prefer is becoming increasingly irrelevant. In discontinuous times, efforts to evolve at your own pace are doomed. Your internal thought and action must keep up with the pace of external change, or you will be unable to cope with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Come to Daddy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=174279]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the boom days of the 1990s, everyone wanted to be a venture capitalist - including many of corporate America's largest companies, which launched their own in-house funds. Corporate investors sank $17 billion into small and midsize companies in 2000 alone. But when the bubble burst, VC investing suddenly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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