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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. Example 4: Twitter.com gives me a great sense of other people’s personalities and interests in a micro-blog format. It’s an excellent broadcasting service.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

from 2004 to 2007. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) I'll talk about the ways to set up process owners and other organizational mechanisms for sustained cross-functional improvement in my next blog post. If employees don't want to change, they have power.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." This blog post was excerpted from the authors' article " Simple Rules for a Complex World " in the September issue of the magazine.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value.

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