Entrepreneurs and internal managers are constantly evaluating their environments and assessing the growth prospects and their bottom-up evaluations merge up into the financial markets in either higher demand for growth capital (causing higher real interest rates) or lower demand (causing lower ones) for capital.

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For the most part, in my experiences, most IT environments harbor a certain level of internal competition among colleagues.

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