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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Let’s look at an example that most of us directly interact with for hundreds, if not thousands, of hours annually: the airline industry. Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline.

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

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Your Company's "Obituary" Can Shape Its Future

Harvard Business Review

If you've spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership off-sites, you've probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. BMW falls into this camp, maybe Ritz-Carlton and Emirates Airlines. Take twenty minutes," a facilitator will say, "and write your professional obituary.

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The Curious Downside of an Owner’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. It demanded blind loyalty, hired ISTJ personality types for support and rewarded dogmatic sales types for trading deals. Congressional Hearings.