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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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October Leadership Development Carnival: Autumn Fun Edition

Persuasive Powerhouse

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. Sample the 30+ management and leadership articles posted this month. Stumble it!

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. That’s just a sampling.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.