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Best Jobs for Women in 2012, Stress-Free Management Tips, Victoria’s Secret’s Human Trafficking Problem

Women on Business

News and Insights from Business Women (December 16, 2011). The Glass Hammer shares the story of Karen Wimbish whose career soared after her children had grown. See Victoria’s Secret’s response by clicking the article link above. Best Jobs for Women in 2012. At the top of the list is post-secondary teacher.

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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. ” Another oft-quoted source is Beer and Nohria’s 2000 HBR article, Cracking the Code of Change , in which they state, with no reference or evidence whatsoever, “The brutal fact is that about 70% of all change initiatives fail.”

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How Sponsorship Can Help Senior Women Break the Marzipan Ceiling

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer (January 19, 2011), an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

For example, I can use a hammer to build a house or to attack my neighbor. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer. In one way or another, I have commented on this common difference between people in this blog and in other articles. The DISC model is just an observation about human nature and human behavior.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Authors.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. Goals must have a specific time period And now for some subtle nuances that will help make your 2011 goals more achievable: 1. So why fight it? Goals must be prominent 9.

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