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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Comparisons with Steve Jobs are not off the mark. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). It describes well the hypocrisy in all of us. We don’t always meet our own standards.

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The Final Piece to the Quality Hire Puzzle

Strategy Driven

A Career Builder survey of more than 6,000 hiring managers, worldwide, reveals some eye-opening global stats about just how much a bad hire can wreak company havoc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. So, for example, one bad hire with an annual income of $50,000 could equal a possible $15,000 company loss.

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Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2013 Time predicted Millennials would “save us all” because they are “more accepting of differences…in everyone.” The researchers found that male students systematically overestimated the knowledge of the men in their classes in comparison with the women.

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The Magnetic Art of Attracting Business

Coaching Tip

With the advent of the Internet, businesses are learning that the influence of what you say about yourself in ads or even on social media simply pales in comparison to what customers say about you. Here is an example of how one of our self-coaching books attracts career women to decide to purchase this career workbook guide: . .

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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Does Race or Gender Matter More to Your Paycheck?

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, American women made 82 cents to every dollar a man made and 80 cents to every dollar made by a white male; up from 79 cents and 77 cents, respectively, in 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, white and Asian people, regardless of their gender, make more than blacks and Hispanics – regardless of their gender.