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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Others suggest that this form of ranking can hurt morale and inhibit cooperation among competing team members that ultimately puts individual interest ahead of what is best for the company. License. .

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German Car and Truck Maker Takes Email Out of Vacation

leaderCommunicator

In a Financial Times article about the new program, Wilfried Porth, board member for human resources for the German company, said: “Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-related emails. Volkswagen announced in 2011 that company servers would stop routing emails to employee cell phones in the evenings.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Are You Believing in Your Own Vast Potential?

ReImagine Work

It’s likely that the higher your belief is on a scale of 1-10, the more others will cooperate, deliver and delight you. How do you “believe in” those around you? Do you believe in the vast potential of those surrounding you at work? What does this mean for YOU? This is something deeply rooted in me. ” What?

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Eoin Whelan, Marian Carcary, (2011) “Integrating talent and knowledge management: where are the benefits?”,

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

To attract Nike’s business, Silver Star created a new set of human-resource policies, including the minimum-wage guarantee, health and old-age benefits, and an implicit promise to continue employing workers made redundant because of technological changes. By the company’s own estimate, total labor costs rose 20-30%.