Editor’s comment: Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
A New Year. A fresh start. Resolutions decided and hopes of a better – the best – version of me to come. Isn’t this how every year starts and yet how easy is it to do this? Most of us might change one thing or just take steps towards changing one thing but to make wholesale changes is difficult.
For businesses and ventures it is no different. Firms set out to change the world, especially those headed by staff who have run or started business before, or those who have worked in firms where
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