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How to Use Mentoring to Attract and Retain Talent

Skip Prichard

Recent data suggests that more than 50% of the workforce consists of people born after 1981—Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born 1997-2012). Opportunities for Career Progression. Mentors work with their mentees to set a vision for their careers and can help mentees discover additional pathways and career possibilities.

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. At some point, you get the benefit of the doubt on skill issues. You see where I’m going?

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The Start-Up of YOU: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Start-Up of YOU: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha Crown Business (2012) How and why start-up mind-sets and skill-sets are essential to achieving and then sustaining success…however defined The basic premise in Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha’s book is that the same mind-sets and [.]. (..)

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Can Harmony Hurt Team Performance?

Harvard Business Review

Take a look at this: the brutal reflections of Jake Cornelius , a Stanford and Cambridge graduate, currently training with the US Rowing Team in preparation for the 2012 Olympics , and a member of the 2007 Boat Race winning Cambridge crew. Or is competition something to be exploited even at the risk of friendship?

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