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Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take

The Horizons Tracker

Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database, which contains data on every new business created between 2005 and 2010 (provided the business has survived for at least five years). For example, whereas 0.83% of immigrants in the workforce created a business between 2005 and 2010, just 0.46% of native-born Americans did likewise.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! Synchronicity is such a blessing!

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The Lure of China's Public Sector

Harvard Business Review

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. But this trend isn't limited to recent graduates. More than 6.4 What's going on?

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The 85% Solution for Happiness at Work

Terry Starbucker

But that shouldn’t stand in our way of a general sense of career enjoyment, or finding some meaning in what we do. I could completely relate to this – during the part of my career when I was unhappy, I was always looking at the clock – counting the minutes to when I could go home.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41. What Trends Currently Influence Servant-Leadership? Ben : Do you see any trends that are making servant-leadership easier to adopt or more popular lately… anything? We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. Is Servant-Leadership Religious? Unfit 2:43 14:10.

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