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Eight Ways Mentoring Brings Out the Leader in Your Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

it stretches employees beyond their day-to-day job.” - Rick Luftglass, former director of The Pfizer Foundation’s education volunteer programs Corporations have long known that their best employees are successful often because they have acquired skills beyond those needed to be an employee.

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A Woman's Place is in the Classroom

Women on Business

There used to be a time when a majority of young girls, ready to explore higher education were told by their parents (mostly fathers) that it was a waste of money for them to go to college; they would “just” end up getting married, becoming pregnant, and staying in the home raising children and taking care of “the” husband.

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At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills

Building Personal Strength

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills I once had an upscale retirement home for a client. As everyone knows, the stock market tanked a few years ago when "the real estate bubble" burst. They were highly educated, intelligent, and experienced in banking.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs.

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Author Chris Brady's Leadership Blog: Tell Me If Anything Was Ever.

Chris Brady

  Do not squander what you’ve been given, no matter how much or little, rather, harness it,develop it, hone it, and focus it, bring it to bear on a daily basis and letting the world see what you were given. Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | July 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM Chris, I have been further considering your words in this post.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. And higher education isn''t offering the human capital cure. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". A recent McKinsey & Co.

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What Work Looks Like for Women in Their 50s

Harvard Business Review

Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40. .” But the “traditional” career path may just be a “traditionally male” career path.

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