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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

If possible, provide some financial incentive like a small hourly rate or commission for work well-done. Texting, Tweeting and More – How Your POS System Can Handle New Technology Guest post by Shannon Suetos (learn more about Shannon at. I have used www.internhere.com to post my request. Who’s on the Bus? Post by Jane K.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. Regardless of whether your firm embraces a meritocracy, a tenure based system, a highly sophisticated compensatory system, or some form of a benevolent dictatorship, bonuses are always an issue.

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

” That speaks to why they did this in the first place: To meet sales quotas and earn incentives. Beyond the fines, Wells Fargo has fired at least 5,300 employees for “inappropriate sales conduct,” and the bank is making changes to its quota system. In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc.,

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A Lesson from Warren Buffet about Ethical Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

The far more interesting question from our standpoint is why Warren Buffett, known for his embrace of ethical business practices, failed to understand the unethicality of Sokol's actions when he learned of them, and intervene. Martin Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Tenbrunsel is the Rex and Alice A.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. And if you succeed by learning to be politically correct in an organization what is the incentive to be anything else? How sad is this?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Seven Fun Facts About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

Accountants, tax lawyers, and economists who actually spend time around the tax system point out that when you eliminate one form of taxation, you have to raise rates on other taxes to make up for the lost income, and those higher rates increase the incentives for tax avoidance and evasion. It''s also because the share of U.S.