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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina didn’t give up.

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

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. Career advancement must be approached with this same hunger for survival.

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People Who Graduate During Recessions Earn Less Money — but They’re Happier

Harvard Business Review

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. Nine months after graduation, only 56% of the class of 2010 had found a job. These early career experiences appear to have lasting negative consequences for later career success.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. Appointing a COO is a recent trend on the continent.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman.