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Eight Ways Mentoring Brings Out the Leader in Your Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

In a recent study on business volunteerism and how it attracts, develops, and retains talent, Deloitte found that 92% of the people surveyed agreed that volunteering improves employees’ broader professional skill sets as well as adding to their leadership skills. For eighteen years, she has been a trustee of the Alper Family Foundation.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I wonder if there’s a good survey out there I could use to get feedback from my team. Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will!

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Morning Advantage: Gender Wars, Chinese Style

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, says real estate executive As Li Hong, “When I come home, my husband expects me to take care of household duties and raise our son, even if I make more than he does." But on the other, 80% of the women surveyed said a man does not deserve to have a girlfriend if he makes less than the equivalent of $650 a month.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. of the U.S.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

My informal survey of a dozen people I know under the age of 35, working in a range of desk jobs, all in the U.S. And keep managing by walking around, even though text-messaging and email seem to make real-world encounters unnecessary. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business Review

Census and American Community Survey for the years 1980 and 2010 to examine three major factors that contribute to gender equality in the labor force: women’s representation in management, the occupational gender segregation among managers, and the gender wage gaps that vary across managerial occupations. And if so, how?

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How America’s Wealthiest Black Families Invest Money

Harvard Business Review

According to data from the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), white Americans’ median incomes were 70% higher than black Americans’ in 2010. Wealthy black Americans have more money in real estate holdings than equally wealthy white Americans. Overall net worth was 7.9