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When Do Scientists Reach Their Peak?

The Horizons Tracker

In Organizing Genius , noted management thinker Warren Bennis chronicles the unifying characteristics of many of the finest teams mankind has ever known. million biomedical papers that had been published between 1980 and 2009. One particularly noticeable trait of many of these teams is their respective ages.

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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Miller advocates for “management by asking” in her post “ Socrates Was On to Something.” Learn how to get the most out of blogs, books, seminars and other resources, whether the subject is management, leadership or any other self-improvement effort, the process for using the information is the same. posted at HRmarketer.com Blog.

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When People Don't Know. a Guest Post from Steve Roesler

Kevin Eikenberry

a Guest Post from Steve Roesler by Kevin Eikenberry on November 23, 2010 in Guest Posts , Leadership , Leadership Blogs , Learning Steve Roesler is an award-winning writer and speaker on leadership, management, and career management topics and can be followed online at the popular All Things Workplace website.

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How American Express Transformed Its Call Centers

Harvard Business Review

That meant measuring performance not according to what managers think, but according to what customers say about us every day. Our service margins are up approximately 10% since we started our reinvention, and between 2006 and 2009, U.S. employee attrition was cut in half. Another issue was keeping our new hires happy.

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Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis

Harvard Business Review

When Gitanjali Gems won the best employer award in the nation for hiring disabled employees in 2009, its Chairman Choksi said: "Since the gems and jewelry manufacturing process offers scope for employment of persons with disabilities, we have responsibility to the society at large and are proud to commit in helping." Productivity is higher.

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To Crack the Glass Ceiling, Start with Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.