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"Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it." ~ Gary Hamel |
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| top 10 headlines |
| 1. | IDOR Summarizes Sales Tax Rate Change |
| 2. | How to Keep Your Strategy Under Control |
| 3. | Startups Should Leverage Their Mistakes |
| 4. | How Enforceable are Non-compete Covenants? |
| 5. | Support Grows For Economic Stimulus on Fed Level |
| 6. | You Are Key to Your Organization's Organic Growth |
| 7. | Slow Improvement for Illinois Foreclosure Rate |
| 8. | What Legacy Has Sarbanes-Oxley Left Us? |
| 9. | Facebook: Can You Stand the Hype? |
| 10. | Americans' Outlook on Financial Futures Improves |
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| IDOR Summarizes Sales Tax Rate Change |
| | "Effective July 1, 2012, certain taxing jurisdictions have imposed a local sales tax or changed their local sales tax rate on general merchandise sales. The following taxes are affected."
Read More. (Illinois Department of Revenue)
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| How to Keep Your Strategy Under Control |
| | "Strategic visions are great, but they can turn into nightmares at the project level."
Read More. (CFO)
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| Startups Should Leverage Their Mistakes |
| | "When you're building a start-up, wrong turns are to be expected -- and embraced. Here's how to make the most of them."
Read More. (Inc.)
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| How Enforceable are Non-Compete Covenants? |
| | "Non-compete covenants are designed to prevent employees from working in a particular industry or geographic area for a specified period of time...But signing without considering the consequences has its consequences."
Read the current issue of INSIGHT Magazine.
(INSIGHT Magazine)
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| Support Grows For Economic Stimulus on Fed Level |
| | "Federal Reserve policymakers are open to further efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy if growth falters or threats escalate."
Read More. (CFO)
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| You Are Key to Your Organization's Organic Growth |
| | Leaders "who give up on organic growth or cede responsibility for it to the operating units are making a big mistake, for three reasons."
Read More. (Harvard Business Review)
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| Slow Improvement for Illinois Foreclosure Rate |
| | "Foreclosure starts in Illinois are on par with those in other areas, but the state's court-supervised foreclosure system continues to bog down properties in the process."
Read More. (Chicago Tribune)
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| What Legacy Has Sarbanes-Oxley Left Us? |
| | "In the (last) decade...the law now known as SOX (has become) highly controversial and a target for frequent criticism from both business executives and politicians."
Read More. (Graziadio Business Review)
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| Facebook: Can You Stand the Hype? |
| | "With the much-heralded Facebook IPO almost upon us, a backlash is growing amongst those weary of the endless hype."
Read More. (TIME)
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| Americans' Outlook on Financial Futures Improves |
| | Their outlook has "recovered from the low point of four years ago, with 63% now saying they expect to be better off a year from now, up from 52% in late May/early June 2008."
Read More. (Gallup)
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