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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

The best part about it is how diverse the field is – a mixture of engineering, science, computer programming, and hands-on fabrication trade skills all centered around simple trigonometric equations – it’s mostly triangles. Takes 2 years to get your education and the courses are dirt cheap and the jobs are in huge demand.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies try to expand wherever rapid revenue opportunities lead them, diversifying into new products, entering new markets, expanding through mergers and acquisitions, or investing in organic growth (which often means stealing market share by releasing products or services similar to those of your competitors).

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. But there is another way to tackle these problems and find meaning in work.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Of course more often than not you would find out that such extreme customization is not profitable. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 The idea for these groups grew out of the growing movement to form small affinity groups to deal with everything from chemical dependency, religious study, and personal grief to book and cooking groups.