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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Discrimination is an Equal Opportunity Offender

Women on Business

Mark Henricks of American Express Open writes: A 2010 paper by a University of Colorado Denver Business School researcher found that attractive women encounter discrimination if applying for positions that are deemed “masculine” roles, such as director of finance or construction supervisor.

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3 Ways To Successfully Attain Any Goal In Life.

Rich Gee Group

A better way to break up your steps would be to have three segmented goals (with sub-goals) that build up to your main goal, ownership of the Z4: Finance – a. When are the Finance and Research steps complete? Initiate the finance process. Normal steps might be save money, research best way to purchase, buy car.

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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. Meanwhile, the payroll-to-sales ratio was also on the decline, with the only exception across all sectors analyzed being finance.

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How do you Write a Termination Letter to an Employee?

HR Digest

A termination letter sample is a letter sent to employees who have been relieved of their positions at an organization. Please reach out to the finance department to get this all sorted out before you leave the office today. Your last day at the office will be July 30, 2011. What is a termination letter sample?

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How to Encourage Your Employees to Think and Act Like Owners

Great Leadership By Dan

As a business owner or business leader, you are in a unique position to create a culture in your organization that will help your employees break the addiction of entitlement and dependence, and become active participants in the business’s financial performance. Here are three steps that I recommend in order to accomplish this: 1.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. The study shows that men receive more sponsorship than women and this has a direct relationship to the number of men promoted to top positions.