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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. There are female pilots, women in the military, as CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies, everywhere and anywhere that calls to talent and skill. He doesn’t ask, he just does.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

Yet, when it comes to the workforce — one of a company's most expensive and valuable assets — too many executives rely on hunches, making decisions without making use of relevant data. ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." A man who is. Step 3: Capture relevant data.

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