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Five Strategies for Hiring Success

Chart Your Course

The National Association of Colleges and Employers estimates the average cost-per-hire in 2011 and 2012 was $5,100. It is critical to write a detailed job description for the position you are looking to fill- listing specific skills, responsibilities, and time and energy requirements. Divide and conquer.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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How to Select a CEO for the Collaboration Economy

LDRLB

We will not solve our global water, energy, or food challenges in the next three to five years. At best, an unethical CEO only saps employees’ energy. The ethical CEO’s company is more likely to operate with little to hide. A new environment. Does the CEO prefer to maximize her legacy or her ego? By a competitor.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

That kind of team environment undoubtedly helped Katrina get her company to where it is today. She also leads her company with a keen eye on the environment. The Vosges-Haut Chocolat headquarters runs on 100% renewable energies. Katrina’s focus on lifestyles doesn’t stop with her employees.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

Looking at our first point, leaders do not necessarily have to be charismatic to inspire others, they can have deep values, be highly ethical, champion a cause and such-like descriptions. We will explore this further in the next section when we look at what creating the right environment looks like.

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Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do.

Terry Starbucker

You are demonstrating that yes, I have a work ethic , yes, I have a passion for this work , and yes, you need to follow my lead on how I tackle this work. When leaders experience failure in their groups, the environment will be far from jovial, but the opportunity to teach will be unequaled. Just a thought.

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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

Strategy Driven

This particular diagram could be plotting anything: weight in relation to height, sleep in relation to energy, happiness in relation to success, and so on. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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