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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Putting an End to Conferences Dominated by White Men

Harvard Business Review

Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. As a leader, commit yourself to improving your selection process.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.