March, 2012

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Lady Luck, Superwoman and Your Career

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LinkedIn , the world’s largest professional network with more than 150 million members worldwide, today released data about global professionals’ perceptions of the role Lady Luck has played in their career trajectory. LinkedIn surveyed more than 7,000 professionals globally and found that 84 percent of professionals do believe in career luck. Forty-eight percent consider themselves to have better career luck when compared to other professionals.

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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

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Minds at Work in Cambridge, Mass, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Lisa Lahey, a development psychologist who also teaches at Harvard, guides executives through a step-by-step process of self-examination and gradual behavioral change. The program is based on the idea that, like dieters with a weakness for doughnuts , many executives want to change but behave in ways that impede their progress.

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Trusting Virtual Teams

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82% of Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" have virtual employees and policies in place. Whether employees work from home, clients' offices or across the globe, more and more managers do not see their direct reports on a day-to-day basis. This trend benefits employers, as remote workers have a 60% higher intent to stay than employees in traditional office settings.

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What All Major Depressions Have in Common

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Signs of deflation are visible but the public will be fooled. Deflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). -- Conquer the Crash , 2nd edition (p. 88). Has the United States met that precondition? Well, consider that total credit market debt as a percent of U.S. gross domestic product was. 280 percent in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression. 380 percent in 2008.

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