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Triumphing Over Crisis

It is often pointed out that in Chinese, the symbol for the word "crisis" is the same symbol used for the word "opportunity"—two sides of the same coin. In other words, it is all in our perspective. Will you find the opportunity in your next crisis? Examples of two entrepreneurs are presented.

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Creating a Vision

Creating a Vision

Former New York City mayor Ed Koch believes every leader has the capacity to be visionary. A true visionary is someone who recognizes a need or opportunity and, regardless of conventional wisdom and skeptics, does something about it. Vision isn't forecasting the future, it is creating the future by taking action in the present to prepare for it.

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Selling Your Business

Selling Your Business

It may be surprising to learn that most businesspeople have little or no knowledge about the process of selling a business. The business should be packaged for sale in a manner that achieves the highest attainable price, and the selling process should be managed in a way that maintains confidentiality and doesn't interfere with day-to-day operations. The transition to new ownership should be structured to ensure the continued health and viability of the business.

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Groups

Basic Engineering Technical Group (BETG)

Comprised of six Divisions concerned with the application of basic engineering principles

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Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)

Energy and Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Committee on Power Boilers

Entrepreneurship

is the act of building a business by an individual through innovation or the taking of an initiative beyond the scope of described job duties. In the business world and in the field of engineering, this requires a combination of skill, intelligence, and ambition. With start-ups becoming commonplace in today’s market, an individual’s ability to think entrepreneurially can play even more of a role in determining success than technical ability.

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