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The Secret to Building Resilience: An Interview with Pat Teague

HR Digest

Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. What has been the most challenging decision you’ve ever had to take in your career?

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The new economy doesn’t operate that way. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits.

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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do! How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? So why am I writing about these two subjects as if they’re interchangeable? Because I believe they are. Interesting thoughts.

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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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Building Fluent Organizations~3 Things That Get in the Way

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a tendency to discount this work because it is viewed, by some, as being less important and the people who produce it, as little more than overhead. For me, creating fluency means building and operating systems that are unimpeded by interests that do not serve the raison d’être of the organization.

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Why You Probably Won’t Move for a Job

Harvard Business Review

Leaving on a Jet Plane (but Just for the Week) Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Human Resource Executive Fewer people are moving for jobs today — and when people do move, not many are citing work as the reason. One important lesson: Don’t discount a charity simply because it pays its executives well. Career planning Hiring'

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