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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals. Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career?

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Michael Haberman, HR Observations : "Hire Attitude vs. Aptitude": A Lesson From Disney - Southwest Airlines is famously known for having a talent management philosophy of "hire for attitude, train for skill"  Disney - another consistently high performing organization - shares that same philosophy towards employee selection.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. competitors.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Prepare in advance to withstand inevitable disappointments: have creative distractions, friends who know how to soothe, a planned break, and a solid plan B. Design stems from USE. Practice frugality.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

When an eminent authority on leadership and change such as John Kotter states that, “To cope with new technological, competitive and demographic forces, leaders in every sector have sought to fundamentally alter the way their organizations do business…Yet, according to most assessments, few of these efforts accomplish their goals.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! If you don’t give your customers the courtesy of taking the time to provide them with excellent service, they are not going to take the time to tell you how to improve your business. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service.