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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. 2 on the list, is the only retailer to make the chart, along with one company each from the insurance, transportation, energy and travel industries. Costco, at No. Procter & Gamble. Union Pacific.

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. Knowing your stats increases your awareness so that you can make proactive choices about how you spend your time and energy.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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Five Power Skills for Discovering Radical Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. This industry is fueled by advances in chemistry and biotechnology that allow the use of pharmacological and cosmetic therapies in areas where, earlier, surgical intervention was needed. An effective way to create creative discontent is to ask questions that shake people up. Find Pivots.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density. Publicly funded research , paired with a vigorous private sector has made the U.S.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The list goes on.

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