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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Google your name periodically.

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Case Study: Bonuses in Bad Times?

Harvard Business Review

Preliminary group results for 2008 had revealed sharp falls both in the number of transactions per store per day and in the average value of each. She dialed the extension of Superado's vice president of human resources, and he picked up on the first ring. And she didn't yet have an answer. Is the Party Over?