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Top Careers for HR Professionals to Pursue

HR Digest

You can pursue the traditional role and become a human resource executive responsible for hiring, firing, onboarding, employee management, and engagement. This role is similar to what a management consultant does for a company. Training and Development Manager. HR Manager. HR Consultant.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Goldman Sachs.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? Given these studies tying air quality to health, we wanted to see whether improved ventilation affects cognitive function, an indicator of worker productivity. In most buildings, managers can take action immediately.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore.

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Create a Work Environment That Fosters Flow

Harvard Business Review

” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” the term takes its name from the sensation it confers. In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. Managing people Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'

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How Office Dwellers Can Become Doers

Harvard Business Review

As I've written before , there's plenty of evidence that people who make a tangible product, use their senses, and help others are happier than mere office dwellers. But there is a glimmer of hope for us Clickers, Copy/Pasters, Conference-Callers, and Collators. Engage employees in making your (or your customers') product.

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