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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. The team helps further define the vision and participates in setting goals. Driven by very aggressive sales goals, as many as 3.5 It’s through differentiation that you or your business become successful. ” -Stan Silverman. If you can’t trust your bank, who can you trust?

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Women, Invest in Yourselves

Women on Business

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. For me, pursuing my career in financial services has always factored into my new year’s resolutions. As a young “career woman” I was taken aback, though I knew deep down he was right.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

Make your goal specific. Instead of saying “I want to be in a management position” say “I want to be Chief Operating Officer or the VP of Sales” Decide why you want to win and what the accomplishment would mean to you. If you want that promotion do not think about Jims career path at all.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. He began his career at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. The goal is to train 20 to 30 employees with disabilities annually with a 50% conversion rate to full-time positions.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm.