If shoddy drilling practices have poisoned tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans, as Donziger alleges, surely the owner of the business should bear some of the blame.
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Imagine being a 45 or 50 year old man or woman who has supported the family by showing up each day for a factory shift only to find yourself now facing life after the factory has shut down in the face of a move offshore or as a result of an economy that put the owner out of business.
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"Only in America can you become owner of a business like this, " he said.
As the owner of the business, be confident in your ability to lead and train the employee rather then rely on the employee to change your company.
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In New York or Boston you can thrive as a nonprofit executive, high-end consultant or financier, but if you are the owner of a business that wants to grow you're out of luck.
With nowhere to go and nowhere to hide in a hostile work environment, the situation looks increasingly grim for Rudolph until, without warning, the owner of the business personally intervenes in an utterly unexpected manner.
In my blog Community Service, Leadership and Small Businesses, I told the story of how my best friend Tina Reynolds, long-time small business owner of Uptown Studios, uses her love of community service to drive the marketing for her business.
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Each of you has distinguished yourselves as the Small Business Owner of the Year in your state or your region.
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By 1931 Hornby was the owner of a multinational business, MP for Everton, and a millionaire.
By the prospects of a small business owner who dreams of turning a good idea into a thriving enterprise.
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Michael Lewis' headaches are (mostly) familiar to any owner of a small business.
My ideal customer is the owner of a small business, with so much business of her own, that she is overwhelmed.
"An owner of a small business is likely coming into their stores already" to look for electronics and other products, he adds.
When the DiMarias ran into some bumper trouble, Schulz introduced himself -- he's part owner of a side business, Fiero Fiberglass.
Mike Porcaro, owner of an advertising business, said he is getting his pump ready to divert mountain runoff away from his four-bedroom house there.
Issam - a 50-year-old owner of a large business - sends his wife to stock up on tinned food for their mountain house in fear of a possible war.
Clay learned that being the owner of a family business can be a lonely job unless you develop respectful relationships with people who encourage you, but also push you to face reality, think hard about the future, and deal with your shortcomings.
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One of the objectives of a small business owner is to minimize its risk of lawsuit and create and successfully maintain a productive , congenial and safe work environment.
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The owner of a dry cleaning business said it had been the eighth time in the past 10 years that the shop had flooded.
The owner of a North East business park is optimistic plans for a new hospital will go ahead despite a government decision to scrap the development.
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These programs tend to involve relieving the business owner of many of the complexities of IT, supplanting on-staff talent with cloud-based services or simple packages that run locally.
"Thousands of individual owner-drivers and hundreds of small-business owners in both the taxi and livery industries are breathing a sigh of relief, " said Michael Woloz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, a plaintiff in the suit.
It had been losing money and didn't fit into the owner's main business of high-volume, low-stakes casinos.
Providing health insurance is "a compensation cost and it's the job of the business owner to minimize costs, " he adds.
Now the owner of a modest real estate business, Moore has a part-time job lecturing other executives how to distinguish financial engineering from outright fraud.
For example, a local bagel shop rewards customers with free bagels and a chance to arm wrestle the owner for a percentage of the business.
"Placing a lien or levy without protecting the rights of a business owner is a job killer and dries up access to credit overnight, " he said.
"I've been serving the clearest glass of tea I've handed out in my 12 years of business, " says Jim Hunt, owner of the Fiddler's Resort, a local hotel and restaurant.
It is natural to want to avoid thinking about these issues, but the age of the business owner is irrelevant to the need to create a business succession plan, as unforeseen events such as death or disability can occur at any time to anyone.
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It is not uncommon to have the business owner possess the building that houses the company outside of the business itself.
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