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First Impressions Define Your Success.

Rich Gee Group

Dress nicely and if you want to, add an element of flair to your wardrobe — a scarf, a sharp tie, a cool belt, cool shoes. You know your environment, you know the people that you are trying to interact/reach out to/impress. I wore what they wore — sharp shirts and expensive slacks. What did I do? Unported License.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top

Strategy Driven

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? In today’s dog-eat-dog environment, a person’s word isn’t always his or her bond. Do what you say you will, period.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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The Bedraggled Return of the Organization Man

Harvard Business Review

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. percentage in 2011: 21.9). This doesn''t mean times are good for male workers. Given the beating the U.S.