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The Art of Irresistible Email

Harvard Business Review

As the director of training for a global professional services firm, she''d recently sent out a note explaining important changes to the summer training schedule and asking office directors to respond with their preferred locations. Training was a huge priority for her firm, so why were they ignoring her request? Time: 5 p.m.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. But by the end of 2013, I decided that I should teach by example, I had to be successful myself in my own business, and test my own theory in order to be convincing, so I did it. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. Steve Schulze, CEO Nekter Juice bar. Hernan Botbol, CEO Taringa.

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