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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

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He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. Thanks, Amit By Tanmay Vora , January 25, 2010 @ 7:18 pm Thanks Amit, for stopping by and commenting. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”,

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Guest Post: Talk is Cheap!

Lead on Purpose

Weatherhead is the author of The Power Of Adversity and chairman and CEO of Weatherchem, a private manufacturer of plastic closures for food, spice, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. Posted on September 8, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin Make communication with employees your priority during times of economic adversity By Albert J.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

The full report is available as a free download and, to whet your appetite, here are some of its most striking findings: • Global connectedness declined sharply at the onset of the financial crisis from 2007-2009, and despite modest gains has yet to recapture its 2007 peak.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. From 1998 to 2007, earnings for a US worker with a BA rose only 0.34% adjusted for inflation.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, should this have not crossed your mind, the PLoS authors tie their findings to past behavior by the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Can a review in 2007 be criticized as biased for not including a study published in 2012? Now, you might find it odd that this was ever an open debate.