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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. More often than not, they reach toward the wrong resources, the untied advisors and sources that send them down rabbit holes. Websites containing educational material as a way to sell services. Banking, insurance benefits, human resources, etc.

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Training Programs That Work for Business, Workers, and the Economy

Harvard Business Review

we summarized the key ingredients that research on these programs has shown to be essential to their success: Multiple employers in the region or industry sector cooperate with one another and with educational and labor institutions to design and fund initiatives to train and hire graduates.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work. Story by Greg Koch, Coca-Cola.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Cross-cultural stimulus: Whatever field you are in, once-a-month take your team on an educational/cultural outing to do or see something that has nothing to do with thier work. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show.

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Should You Share a Room on a Business Trip?

Harvard Business Review

Years ago, when I worked at Holt, Rhinehart & Winston Educational and Professional Publishing , my female superior and I attended a national teacher''s conference in San Antonio, and were forced to share a hotel room because of a late booking. Cutting costs Human resources Organizational culture' in her pajamas !

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. Gino recommends managers look into providing workers with education and training on the topic. ” On the other hand, words like “collaborative” and “cooperative,” tend to draw more women than men.