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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week - A Look Ahead at 2011

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. Tim Tolan, Fistful of Talent : 2011: Implementing the NO IDIOT RULE Krista Ogburn Francis, Alive HR : To Resolve or Not to Resolve Ben Eubanks, UpstartHR : Put up or Shut up.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Included are some great thoughts on how an organization should approach its employees' personal brands and the role they play in the "free agent" employment market. . License. .

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When HR Decisions Become Social Media Scandals

Harvard Business Review

We've just seen two spectacular stories of how employee dismissals can go dramatically awry in the era of social media. First, Applebee's waitress Chelsea Welch was fired for posting a photo on Reddit that showed a customer receipt inscribed with a anti-tipping (but pro-religion) message: "I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?"

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values.

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