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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment. Plenty of good news remains in 2011 for business owners yet to capitalize on three last minute tax planning tips that keep more cash on hand for 2012. Guest Post by Perry Sheraw (learn more about Perry at the end of this post).

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WHE07: Pitfalls of Workplace Wellness: Does It Do More Harm Than Good? | with Al Lewis

Engaging Leader

Al’s book on outcomes measurement, Why Nobody Believes the Numbers was named 2012 health care book of the year in Forbes. His latest book is Surviving Workplace Wellness.With Your Dignity, Finances, and (Major) Organs Intact., co-written with Vik Khanna.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Qualitative evidence suggests the program achieved the agreed objectives. It’s business as usual. Business moves along.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

We are proposing that an entrepreneurial opportunity exists objectively, but that does not guarantee that if you identify it and try to exploit it, you’ll turn the opportunity into profits,” the authors say. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Objectively assess the current skills and capabilities of your workforce to identify gaps. In 2012, when Jeff Immelt first introduced GE’s push into the industrial Internet, the company had 50,000 engineers in its workforce — mostly aeronautical, electrical, and other traditional engineers.

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Pricing Lessons From the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

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The Link Between Income Inequality and Physical Pain

Harvard Business Review

The use of pain killers increased by 50% from 2006 to 2012 and one recent estimate put the cost of physical pain on the U.S. Asking poor people to think about their finances impairs their cognitive performance, while the rich show no change. Our research goes beyond the objective sense of economic insecurity, however.

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