How is it that the men and women who took risks, learned hard lessons, and displayed ingenuity and tenacity their entire lives, act like fearful procrastinators when it comes to managing the business risk of retirement and succession?

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Although they approach the business of managing risk more directly than, say, an insurance firm, their employees do not don uniforms or wield guns.

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But those who leap into this channel without a plan for gauging and managing the mobile customer experience risk losing more business than they gain, and damaging their brands in the process.

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This made each senior artisan something like a small business owner or tenured professor, managing a certain amount of risk, negotiating pay dynamically with bigger capitalists and the government, and contracting out work to other artisans.

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Having unleashed my entrepreneurial attitude both as a business owner and corporate executive, I have learned that managing risk and opportunity fuel the addictive force of entrepreneurship.

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"They will be getting terms usually given to poorer countries, " David Levey, managing director of sovereign risk at Moody's told the BBC's World Business Report.

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Every company has a business strategy, a risk strategy, a strategy for growing markets, for managing human resources and so forth.

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Companies are cash rich, but are not putting their money to work into the U.S. because of political risk and a simple lack of new business in the pipeline, says Richard Soultanian, a managing director at NUS Consulting Group.

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