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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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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts. and public opinion.”

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Hire a Great Chinese Engineer by Impressing His Girlfriend's Mom

Harvard Business Review

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. For example, in Beijing the price of an apartment has tripled since 2005 , averaging 27 times the average annual household income, five times the international average.

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Why Hiring Is Like Playing Blackjack, And 3 Rules To Increase Your.

Terry Starbucker

Kirk Baumann Campus to Career [link] Mario Cantin November 18, 2010 at 1:20 pm Great advive, thank you very much for sharing — I’ll make this article one of the policies in my new startup. Your other points hit home as well and will continue to push me to be a better leader myself. Keep up the great work!