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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. Sachin: September 20, 2010 at 8:12 pm Hi Mary, Your post really made me think about decisions I have made in the past.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Posted in Uncategorized 6 Responses to “Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That&# Sachin: November 1, 2010 at 4:15 pm Hi Mary, This is an excellent question that came up in the post you read. Thanks, Mary Jo Asmus : November 2, 2010 at 2:39 pm Sachin, you have good points. What other this’s and that’s do you balance?

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

December 14, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under Gallery , Reflections 8 Comments A few days ago, I posted about the tragic death of a young lady who was part of my life when I was in college and she was a toddler. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. How Much Margin Do You Have?

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. By 2009, his team’s M&A skills were strong enough to buy a competitor that was nearly as big as Pelican.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. Many of these jobs – those dealing with computers, for example – could not have been foreseen in 1963, since computers were still primitive and rare. Chinese factory workers.

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How the BP Commission Dropped the Ball

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It