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Navigating the volunteer board member lifecycle for effective collaboration

Board Effect

At the Louisiana Restaurant Association , leaders also sought new strategies and tools to manage access to documents and data as board members ended their terms or resigned. With collaborative revisions, automated notifications and electronic approvals, boards can operate with a minimum of paper and no unnecessary duplication of effort.

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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Terri is an executive with 20 years of experience specializing in government relations, social impact strategy, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, and innovative business operations to further the organizational mission. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Terri Broussard Williams.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Celebrate excellence in governance: Nominate a leader for the Modern Governance 100 Awards!

Board Effect

We are thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the Diligent Modern Governance 100 Awards. The MG100 Awards, as they’re commonly known, is a prestigious recognition program celebrating the exceptional contributions of governance, risk, audit and compliance professionals around the world. What happens next?

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From the Vault: America’s Founding Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The founders early on identified the core issues and articulated the “problem;” they recognized the “opportunity” represented by the immense resources of the colonies; and they designed a “solution” in a new kind of government, ruled by the people themselves. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based California.