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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethical decisions are seldom simple.

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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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Outsourcing: Build vs Buy

SoCal Tech Calendar

With offshoring, custom solutions became much more cost effective, but at the expense of increased management or sometimes increased project failure risk. There is no impetus to get everything done in-house and not everything is sent offshore for cost savings either. General Counsels, CFOs, HR Management are prime examples.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Delusions About Business Ethics Limit Future Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethical decisions are seldom simple.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Marty Zwilling.

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7 Cultural Myths That Can Destroy Your Moral Compass

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, people often do not automatically know that they are facing an ethical choice. These can be as simple as how to handle customer over-payments, or more complex in how to handle the choices every employee may face between conflicting customer and company interests. Ethical decisions are seldom simple.