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Hiring Flexible and Temporary Talent

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But just as many prefer their independence and organizations must accommodate the goals of these workers to stay competitive in the marketplace and attract the best and brightest talent available.”. Until the beginning of 2011, the main reason for dumping a lease was the driver's need to find a lower monthly car payment.

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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

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However, true opportunities need to be the right fit in terms of our personal visions and goals. We need to make sure that our career goals coincide with our personal goals—and if, at present, they don’t appear to, we should think long and hard about how to make them harmonious. What do you weigh?

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Preparing business students for managerial roles

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One such class is a course on " personal leadership ," in which students are tasked to set goals, spend time on introspection and even use meditation techniques to alleviate stress, he said. Source: The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2011.

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Deliberate Practice

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He is now on the "Dan Plan" which involves golfing for 10,000 hours--which will take six and a half years of full-time commitment--with the goal of becoming one of the roughly 250 men on the PGA tour. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, November 28, 2011 . Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success.

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Back to the Future: Sputnik to Today

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in 1961, he presented his vision of putting a man on the moon (and bringing him home safely) which resulted in NASA with a goal of piloted voyages to the Moon. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011. When John F. Kennedy became president of the U.S. Why aren't U.S. Yes, Virginia, we aren't as rich as we thought we were.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

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Creating this kind of tension should be the goal,” Mr. Kesler says. Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. But a badly designed organization keeps them from having an impact or satisfying their values ,” says Ms.

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How many friends can you really have in your social network.

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Below 150, it is possible to achieve these same goals informally based upon personal loyalties and direct person-to-person contacts. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2011. In recent years, Facebook has also seemed to confirm the hunch, with rosters of friends often settling around the Dunbar number.

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