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

Chris Brady

Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | July 19, 2010 at 05:53 PM Chris, I have been further considering your words in this post. Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | July 19, 2010 at 09:06 PM Thanks so much Chris for your deep insights into life and history. Posted by: Cory | July 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM Oh how these words resonate in my spirit!

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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. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

Is it possible that the Great Recession of 2008-2010 might have something to do with our coming of age as virtual creatures? That is why one has to wonder about the role of what I have called "virtualism" (in contrast to realism) in the devastating real estate bubble and ensuing Great Recession. And so we spend more.

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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.