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Pre-Employment Self Assessments

Coaching Tip

billion in 2011, up 15% from 2010, according to research firm Gartner. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2012. Globally, spending on so-called talent-management software rose to $3.8 Though hiring is a crucial business function, conventional methods are remarkably short on rigor, experts say.

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Arjun Atwal Brings Amazing Personal Strength to Make Golf History

Building Personal Strength

So I wasn't out there with my weed-whacker clearing the wild part of our property next to the road. His heroic Cinderella victory means that he is "fully exempt" through 2012. Copyright 2010. It was Sunday in the Texas Hill Country, and the temp was 103 degrees in the shade. He played like a veteran. Post by Dennis E.

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Macho Cultures Are Fairer for Women

Harvard Business Review

percentage points between 2000 and 2010. In the 2012 Grant Thornton survey of the gender balance in senior executive roles, for example, Brazil had 27% women and 73% men, compared to the US with 17% women and 83% men. As in many other countries, women now outnumber men in the country's universities. In Chile, the increase was 9.6

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the four systematic reviews from 2012 onwards all found mostly positive associations; none were funded by industry. 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. But what about peer review?

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). The movement has been building for years, from P&G opening up its product development pipeline early in the 2000s to the launch of the GreenXchange for sharing green patents early in 2010.