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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. To be a strong leader, you need to show an unshakeable work ethic. You still set goals for others to follow and make sure everyone performs to the best of their abilities.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. million times. Former CEO, Carlson.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Would they be delighted or disturbed?

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

These tools are especially attractive to retail and service companies because they have so many employees and such high turnover, which means they are hiring all the time. The field of psychology has long thought about the ethical issues and moral consequences of their tests. Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out.