Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. They could leave and hope to find another job in their profession, they could stay and grit it out or they could stay and try to improve their career prospects by joining in on the Animal House leadership style.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Rehearse your pitch.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. Not bad, but hardly Zuckerbergian.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Whyte described the American worker — in particular the white-collar worker — as an "organization man" out to build his career and his life around a single corporation. The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. In 2011 the private equity firm Blackstone invested 160 million euros in the company. Kaufmann proceeded to engineer a turnaround of the company by focusing on the top end of the market.

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