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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

Coaching Tip

Winston, a former executive responsible for leadership development at the Countrywide Financial Corporation, spent three years in a legal battle against Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America, contending that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line. million in damages.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  While much has been reported about how this has impacted the lives of so many Americans, you do not read a lot about the impact high unemployment has had on organizations. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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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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How To Have A Scroogeless Holiday-5 Charitable Giving Strategies.

Women on Business

Although charitable giving is reported to be slightly up for the first nine months of 2010, giving in general is significantly down from prior years and charities are still struggling to stay alive. Just be sure to get a receipt from the charity for the cash, or keep your credit card statement, bank record or other receipt as documentation.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

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Strategies to Promote Women Should Vary Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Using nationally reported statistics from the World Bank (2011) , we found that nations with tighter cultures tended to have fewer female legislators, senior officials, and managers. Diversity Gender Human resources Leadership Managing people' Cultural context matters.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.