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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

In this time of unrest and change, the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in leadership has emerged as the critical skill set for leaders. Take in these wise words from HBR’s 2002 article “ Leading in Times of Trauma ” 2 : “You can’t eliminate such suffering, nor can you ask people to check their emotions at the door. Manage others.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

I saw that successful leaders compensate for their personal shortcomings by recruiting team members with complementary skills and temperaments. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units.

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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

In addition, he or she should be skilled and confident in connecting your business growth with integrated and holistic wealth management that includes tax, financial and investment strategies. Any adviser should provide a great deal of clarity about what you can expect from the relationship. About the Author.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. But it's clear that we can't grow high-skill, high-wage employment by sharing personal information on Facebook and playing online games. Building up the U.S.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Although he didn’t have a U.S.