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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week - A Look Ahead at 2011

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I would like to shift gears and take a look ahead at what the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogging community sees in store for us in 2011.  Enjoy!

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Hardwoods of Michigan Joins The Six Disciplines Client Community

Six Disciplines

However, through the efforts of the management team, the company rebounded strongly in 2010. Towards the end of 2010, Robert Vogel, President and CEO, saw the need to shift the senior management focus back to long- term strategy planning - and execution. Because the hardwood lumber industry is tied directly with U.S.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

People can do some due diligence before going to work for a compnay. offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from HBR.org. Unfortunately, there are organizations that are toxic from the top down; where senior-most management pays lip service to the tenets of leadership, but acts in ways bordering on the malevolent.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

This due diligence included, setting a new household budget, moving investments, setting up a home equity line of credit, and finally, buying a new car (for the first time in 11 years!). My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

I also agree that due diligence is an imperative — and is often overlooked by crowdfunders as impractical or overly complex. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8 banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC.

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Why Chinese Firms' Cross-Border Deals Fall Apart

Harvard Business Review

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. Some deals have failed because of national security concerns in the U.S., billion and $3.0