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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

But from poorly written cover letters to interview no-shows to (yay) an eventual hire, Coyle''s story underlines one of the central tensions of the American economic recovery that seems easily solvable: Even though a lot of qualified workers can’t find jobs, a lot of jobs can’t quite find qualified workers.

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Do Financial Regulators Have Principles?

Harvard Business Review

It is not as though the Smith letter contained particularly new insights. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. Unfortunately that's not a luxury we have with the global financial system. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'? It is pretty pathetic. But if it got wrecked we could still live with it.

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The Great Collision

Harvard Business Review

Local, personal choices are colliding with their global, social consequences — and the result is futility, frustration, and fury. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity. So what's the way out?

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image.

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The Behavioral Science Behind the Negative TV Ads of Trump and Clinton

Harvard Business Review

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” Simpson : Or it could just be that when the subject is Trump, ONLY HUGE UPPERCASE LETTERS ARE STRONG ENOUGH.