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Avoid an HR Headache with these 25 Tips

ExactHire - Leadership

The expectations business leaders place upon their human resource departments are increasing. Of course, human resource professionals came into their roles with a higher calling: cultivating the company’s human capital, its employees. The times have caught up with the nobler side of human resources.

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5 Critical Factors For Building The Right Team

Tanveer Naseer

Diversity Matters I’m sure this comes across as a politically correct slogan initiated by someone in the Human Resources Department, but that completely misses the point. One of my own flaws was generally erring on the side of “developing people to make it work” which was a noble but often misguided approach.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. They’ve never franchised. Their economic performance supports the theory that specialists beat generalists.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business Review

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Here is a simple process from my book Social Media Strategy, Marketing, and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

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How to Take a Social Venture to Scale

Harvard Business Review

But the good news is that there are common elements—seven organizational capabilities that can be developed and combined in different ways to take a promising innovation to the next level. Stimulating Market Forces. They are: Staffing. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.