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Peter Berg: Become The Best Version Of Yourself

N2Growth Blog

Working in a demanding career – be it film-making, engineering or finance – requires great concentration of time as well as energy. Of course there will be times when your personal pursuits must give way to work as well as family and friends. As he notes, it enables him to do his work as well as be a better person. That’s life.

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Mastering A Career Change After 50

HR Digest

The lessons in the film about talent and ageism are quite real. One can counsel as a social advisor, on marriage, education or finance. There are many short-term courses available for these roles. The Intern , a movie starring Robert De Niro as a 70-year-old intern, may come as a bit of a shocker to many.

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Unusual Ways to Save Money In Your Business

Strategy Driven

No matter if you are looking for a better quality machine for your manufacturing plant, or a way to measure thin film stress and strain , you will have to consider all the options before you tie yourself into a long term contract. Today, most companies are under pressure to reduce the packaging and their environmental footprint.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

These CEOs see management opinions as inconsequential, unless of course, they happen to be in alignment with their own beliefs and opinions. You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show.

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Featured Rascal: Tank Man

Chris Brady

  Throughout the course ofdispelling the demonstrators, many people were killed and arrested. "   All we know about himis what was shown through the camera lenses of reporters on the scene, who hadto smuggle their film out of the country before what happened could be seen bythe outside world.

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Caption Contest 2010.7 (Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free.

Chris Brady

Oh, and, of course, should you already own a copy of Launching a Leadership Revolution (as, of course, you should) we'll instead send you an autographed copy of the RASCAL book. Now that is no scam ! Just make us laugh the hardest and it's yours! We'll leave it up to you. Just make your caption a good one!)

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Why I Challenged My Kids to Start Companies Before College

Harvard Business Review

I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful. In our view, they needed to learn what it takes to plan their work, manage their time, interact with customers and vendors, handle the finances, and so on.