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Indy 500 Races Can Be Won or Lost in the Pit. How’s Your Pit Crew Doing?

Great Leadership By Dan

I have the “up close” view that comes from long days of working, long nights of dining and long weeks of studying together in development courses. In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. Some had worked in my own life: better fitness, Covey’s Seven Habits, active vacations and better stress management, to name a few.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. The organization has an in-house remote racker management training program. Recent research shows that 4.3 Intuit Inc. BCD Travels.

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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% found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

When I launched my second business, a publishing company called Sigma Communications, I was filled with passion but knew next to nothing about publishing a magazine. He listened carefully as I told him about my idea for my magazine. He shared that publishing a magazine was an ongoing challenge. 500 company.

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The Case for Crowdsourcing Projects as a Business

Strategy Driven

The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole?

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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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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

When we launched my publishing business, Sigma Communications, I was so passionate about the magazine, and so confident that it would be a runaway success, that I decided to self-fund. Sigma’s quarterly magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , consumed capital at a rate far greater than USI could generate it.