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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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

Women on Business

of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% 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% 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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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

Coaching Tip

Winston joined Countrywide in May 2005, when the lender was riding the mortgage wave. He was hired as an executive vice president in the leadership development area to help Countrywide grow even bigger and groom better managers. Soon after, he was promoted to managing director and enterprise chief leadership officer.

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Employee Volunteer Programs Make A Difference In The Community

Women on Business

Additionally according to the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and Business Civic Leadership Center in 2005 64% of executives surveyed say that corporate citizenship produces a tangible contribution to the company bottom line. In 2011 Sterling Savings employees spent 44,000 hours volunteering. You get out there.

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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. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

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