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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Considering the expansion of the Internet, powerful search engines, and social media, it should be much easier to match potential employees with employers. information about work and jobs is relatively hard to come by for someone seeking employment,” says James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Apparently not. “We

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. If you read the business press, you could easily assume that proficiency in social media or online data analytics now determine business success. Sales forces have NOT been replaced by social media or other internet tools.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

Within the last year, I’ve attended dozens of meetings with communicators in which a single, consistent order is dispatched: “We’ve got to incorporate social media in ALL our strategies.”. Then there are those thoughtful thinkers who pause for a moment to go deeper in understanding what it means to be strategic with social media.

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Morning Advantage: Heavy Metal Management

Harvard Business Review

Union membership fell in 2012 to its lowest level since 1916, even in the wake of 30 years of wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and cutbacks in pensions and insurance coverage. 3) Expose employers who exploit low-wage workers using social media. 3) Expose employers who exploit low-wage workers using social media.

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Disengaged Employees? Do Something About It

Harvard Business Review

A 2012 report on human capital from McKinsey added to the evidence, noting that organizations with top scores in employee motivation are about 60% more likely to be in the top quartile for overall business health. The next time Gallup or McKinsey do their polls, I''d like to see those engagement scores rise.

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The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great

Leading Blog

If you’re a brand in this age of splintered attention on social media, you have to be good at reaching people conversationally, and you have to have good content that they want to see, otherwise they chose not to listen to you.” Carmine Gallo. “If David Pakman. When you reach the C-suite level, make your presentation as simple as possible.

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

I quit my comfortable job in NYC with McKinsey & Co. We also acquired India's largest media products distribution company to deliver magazines, books, and DVDs to thousands of vendors across the country. ACK Media competed in the children's market, which epitomizes that disconnect.