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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Says Adam Cobb, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: “The best way to get a job now is the same as in the ’70s and the ’80s—word of mouth.”. Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords.

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Work Together or Fail Alone

Coaching Tip

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Make no mistake, I am a capitalist: Someone who puts capital to work, and wants something back. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. for the S&P 500 Industrials. in the U.S.,

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Adults in the United States spent, on average, 60 hours watching television news in 2012. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? But only 21% of TV news coverage in the U.S. foreign affairs.