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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. The post The Rise In Portfolio Careers first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. “Alternative workers, who accounted for 15.7%

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Female Inventors Get A Raw Deal Compared To Male Inventors

The Horizons Tracker

Research a few years ago suggested that we tend to perceive men as being more innovative than women, even though the reality is often very different. They found that 60% of female inventors operated in four of the 35 scientific categories used in patent applications, with all of these in the life sciences. “Only 23.6%

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Researchers Are Encouraged To Produce Quantity Rather Than Quality Research

The Horizons Tracker

Research activity As many academics face pressure from their institutions and grant bodies to demonstrate research activity, regular assessments such as REF are utilized to allocate funding and evaluate performance, which can have significant financial and career implications.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy! I Think Not.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Jim Collins.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades.

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