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Employee Volunteer Programs Make A Difference In The Community

Women on Business

In 2011 Sterling Savings employees spent 44,000 hours volunteering. I had an opportunity to interview Tera Coon, Communications and Public Affairs Director for Sterling Savings Bank and learn more about their Employee Volunteer Program, involvement in the community and the positive impact it has made.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. If they are too good at what they do, they grow so fast that they don’t have time to look at their processes even if they repeat the same mistakes again and again.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Human resources management. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not).

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Of course, time is money, and in light of the long selling cycles, creative financing is often the name of the game: banks will sometimes step up to finance part of a firm contract with a large customer.