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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

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A recent paper shows that there are over 10 million such people operating in the European Union, but whereas many such people are highly educated, the paper argues that they often suffer from poor working conditions and institutional support that is simply not geared for this modern form of work. Banding together.

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German Car and Truck Maker Takes Email Out of Vacation

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Volkswagen announced in 2011 that company servers would stop routing emails to employee cell phones in the evenings. according to figures from the OECD, or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. They’re also helping educate employees on how to reduce email volume.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating. For example, for the first time ever, IBM chose a woman CEO, Virginia “Ginni” Rometty.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. As often quoted, the late great Albert Einstein is believed to have pro- posed, ‘If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough’(Einstein, in Lau, 2011). Transformational leadership.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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Views from the Top - Wisdom from 15 Past US Presidents

Building Personal Strength

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. For each person, some patterns will be stronger than others.

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