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Sowing Wild Oats & Getting It Out of Your System - What's Really Happening

Building Personal Strength

Unlike his coworkers, his studies gave him a different perception of the floor operation. After six months, his new work-flow system was saving the company so much money that he was put in charge of upgrading all the company's operations. Copyright 2011. One day he got a job in a factory as an assembly technician. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks. Quick analysis (like you’ve outlined) Live trial.

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Who Pays Corporate Taxes? Possibly You

Harvard Business Review

The cardinal rule of incidence analysis,” UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach once said, “is you do not talk about incidence analysis.” As the world’s economies became more intertwined in recent decades, economists — Harberger among them — began constructing open-economy models that showed workers bearing a larger share of the burden.

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The Problem with Using Personality Tests for Hiring

Harvard Business Review

A seminal work in this area is Frank Schmidt’s meta-analysis of a century’s worth of workplace productivity data, first published in 1998 and recently updated. And yet that’s how many companies operate. According to a 2011 NBC News article , the use of personality assessments are on the rise, growing as much as 20% annually.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. And while some foundations bucked the trend and made double-digit investment gains in recent years, the average foundation in Chronicle's analysis netted out 14.9

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses. This followership type also helps to improve their leaders’ performance, as they will voice opinions prior to and provide constructive feedback after bad decisions.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. But in the final analysis, ‘A Short Lesson in Perspective’ is a valued insight into life for each and everyone of us. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. So “here’s the thing”. An elaborate hoax.