Wed.Oct 19, 2011

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18 Minutes: A book review by Bob Morris

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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done Peter Bregman Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2011) Do you need a FIND ME button for your life? Look no further. I have been following Peter Bregman’s HBR blog posts for several years and consider him one of the most thoughtful and most [.].

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Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™ Rankings announced

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The Technology Fast 500™ is an annual ranking by Deloitte of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Award winners were selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2006 to 2010. For the 14th consecutive year, there are more software companies on the Technology Fast [.].

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The 2020 Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

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The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies, Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd Harper Business/An im print of HaroerCollins (2010) How and why the HR function has become so much more important than many (most?) C-level executives now realize The reference to “HR function” refers to anyone and anything [.].

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3 Types of Mentoring You Should Offer

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Companies with abundant mentoring opportunities are more likely to retain their people. To achieve this, offer a range of mentors for people at different career stages. Here are [.].

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