Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. This skill takes practice. Toastmasters is great for honing presentation skills). Test ideas.

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Women in the LEAD

MAY 18, 2010

 She serves as Chair for the Human Relations Commission for the City where she lives and branching out in other ways to use her leadership skills to serve the community. I invite you to listen to her inspiring message and insights as an accomplished leader. Why do SMART people say "NO" to your great ideas?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Women in the LEAD

MAY 18, 2010

She serves as Chair for the Human Relations Commission for the City where she lives and branching out in other ways to use her leadership skills to serve the community. BOOST YOUR CRITICAL SKILLS. Tactics of Innovation: How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS. Visit us at Women in the Lead. .

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Women in the LEAD

JUNE 22, 2010

We put this odd pairing of skills together, which gave us a little specialty independently, we were pretty good , but when we worked together, we could do extraordinary things neither of us could do alone. We started a business no one believed would work. A series of small miracles followed and we landed a few great customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. But the ways people''s knowledge, skills and expertise get plugged into the workplace has been. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR? Im sick about it. All rights reserved.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

There are many advantages to democratic workplaces, not the least of which are that they appear to be magnets for skilled, talented and diverse pools of people. Reply Susan Mazza May 12, 2010 at 6:20 pm Thought provoking Gwyn. Thanks for coming by and for your thought provoking comments!

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