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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects.

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Caption Contest 2011.1 and a Winner Announced!

Chris Brady

Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. Posted by: Josh | January 05, 2011 at 09:06 PM Yet another michigan coach searching popular online career websites for that next job offer that can lead to yet another defeat.I

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

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How to Woo Talent From the For-Profit World

Harvard Business Review

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

For now we may leave certain questions to the daily press, who have seats at Rajaratnam's trial and can listen to Kumar sing like a canary, albeit a thoroughly well-spoken and poised McKinsey-trained canary. Consultants by definition spend most of their careers as outsiders, guns hired from afar to help clients shoot at problems.