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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

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Understanding and using time to overcome life’s challenges is a topic I cover extensively in my book, THE POWER OF ADVERSITY: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. The Power of Adversity: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better.

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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

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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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Pre-Employment Self Assessments

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For more and more companies, the hiring boss is an algorithm. Powerful computers and more sophisticated software have made it possible to evaluate more candidates, amass more data and peer more deeply into applicants' personal lives and interests. billion in 2011, up 15% from 2010, according to research firm Gartner.

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What happens when business as usual is impossible?

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World economic losses to disasters totaled an estimated $380 billion in 2011, and nearly every major company now sets up detailed continuity and mitigation plans for everything from terrorist incidents and nuclear attacks to pandemics like bird flu. Downtown New York lost power for nearly a week.

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

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Becoming a Network Linchpin

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Inside a company, social networking tools provide the linchpin for corporate growth , says Facebook's Director of Information Technology Tim Campos. Campos says company culture influences whether collaboration projects will succeed. Today, you and half a billion other people know that Facebook is a place to connect with friends online.

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The Connected Mobility of the Millennial Generations

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The power and importance of these kinds of connections is backed up by research. For example, if a friend posted on Facebook that he uses a product, you''d be more likely to believe it and want to use it--versus seeing a commercial that a company is paying money for to influence you to buy something. .