In an article for Forbes.com, Business Secrets of the Trappists, I outlined the monastic principles that make monasteries the world over so successful in business.
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Microsoft will bid for Nokia with higher premium if some company really bids for Nokia, because Nokia is in so close partnership with Microsoft that this also includes business strategies, business secrets and so on.
August Turak, an entrepreneur and consultant who wrote a four-part Forbes.com series called "Business Secrets of the Trappists" about his experiences at a financially successful monastery, agrees that humility can be a powerful tool in the workplace.
The United States is seeking a more muscular response to the growing threat from foreign hackers interested in obtaining business trade secrets.
But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark.
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The judge agreed and said the business cards were trade secrets.
The question then is how best to take full advantage of the benefits of a global economy without jeopardizing business-critical trade secrets and other valuable intellectual property.
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Unfortunately, intercepted communications can mean a significant loss of revenue for corporations that have unknowingly revealed trade secrets or business information that an agile competitor can exploit.
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"The chance of getting into a top business school is 10% to 15%, " says Chioma Isiadinso, a former admissions board member at Harvard Business School and author of The Best Business Schools' Admissions Secrets.
You have the right to protect your trade secrets and confidential business information.
You could say that investor funds are the lure venture capitalists use to entice successful business owners to educate them in the secrets of an industry.
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The same rights could be applied to medical records, nuclear secrets, online archives or even business applications.
The conventional norm in business is that there are a lot of secrets.
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Only trade secrets such as company financials, customer lists, business plans, secret formulas, and unpatented inventions, can be lost when people know and copy.
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Unlike many men, who prefer not to let their competitive edge be known, my experience tells me that most female entrepreneurs are willing to share their secrets to success in order to gain tips from other successful business people and even to help give a newbie a leg-up.
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An editor of a business newspaper was arrested and jailed for more than a year because the government claimed state secrets were revealed in an article about a corruption case the government itself had publicized.
As John Bradberry writes in his insightful book, 6 Secrets to Startup Success: How to Turn Your Entrepreneurial Passion into a Thriving Business (AMACOM, 2011), this is a period when the firm is starting to see results and its leaders are beginning to experience the thrill of success.
The year 2009 will indeed, here and across the world, be a chance to recognise this form of communication as an essential liberator, a window on the world for children reading their books (under their bedcovers, as I did), or adults being able to go about their business with confidence - and with the certainty that very few other people will be able to read their secrets.
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