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Mary Schaefer featured as Leading Voice at Lead Change Group blog this month

ReImagine Work

After experiencing her 8th downsizing, she left DuPont in her 20th year there, concluding her corporate career as an HR manager. She went into HR so people could have at least one person in HR they could expect to be “human.”.

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

She specializes in manager/employee interactions with organizations employing engineers, scientists and IT professionals, helping managers/owners successfully coach employees to tap into their own initiative and resourcefulness to deliver results.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement. per million opportunities. Deming is the core of our management.” .

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

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When the Jobs Go Away, They Take Your DNA

Harvard Business Review

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. Ours did; over 700 did not.)