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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. So what do you do to protect your earning power but also keep yourself competitive in a buyer’s market?

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3 Ways to Confront Economic Adversity in 2011

Coaching Tip

Understanding and using time to overcome life’s challenges is a topic I cover extensively in my book, THE POWER OF ADVERSITY: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. The Power of Adversity: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. But as the saying goes, “ time heals all wounds…” . Deregulation.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. “ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.”, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Undertakings with $20 million price tags such as the post-merger integration of a giant pharmaceutical client and its equally humongous acquisition. And what's hot on the corporate rialto by way of consulting work?

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. So allow me.

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When Ingenuity Saves Lives

Harvard Business Review

After producing an initial prototype — a stripped-down version of traditional incubators powered by electricity — they traveled to Nepal to test it in an urban hospital. Most importantly, priced at approximately $200, the Embrace portable infant warmer costs merely 1 percent of what incubators in Western markets cost.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform.