Chart Your Course

APRIL 3, 2015

Sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and sharp spending cuts by businesses and consumers alike have taken a toll. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace: 2010-2012 report , employee engagement levels remain stagnant among U.S. Though the state of the U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 7 Ways To Lead Without Uttering A Single Word by Starbucker on October 3, 2010 There is much written about the words leaders need to use, both in speech and on paper, to be effective. Popularity: 44% [ ? ’ question.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle by Starbucker on April 18, 2010 In 1987, during my first few months as a fledgling executive, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

have dropped by billions — down 11% in 2010 alone, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior. Users then report time and money saved after each task is completed. These 80 or so people became free agents looking for the position that was best for them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. So while America has long been the only developed nation to not guarantee workers any paid time off, our elective status as No-Vacation Nation has been a relatively recent phenomenon. This something the PTO report also noticed.

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