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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach.

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. If not, how will you imbue your leadership with what you need from them – or where will you go to acquire it?

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., One of the intriguing facts to come to light is that the fraudulent account openings continued even after the bank was aware of it and had fired employees for it starting in 2011. Large-scale unethical sales practices often begin with minor ethical compromises.

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Let’s Be Honest About Lying

Harvard Business Review

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' Truth is, some of the most successful and iconic leaders, including many CEOs, were (and are) consummate, accomplished prevaricators.

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Don't Forget To Take Your Happy Pill

Terry Starbucker

Tweet This Post Tagged as: happiness Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } TLW 016: Ethics? What ethics? And oh yes, please, repeat as necessary. There are unlimited refills. Popularity: 2% [ ?