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Effective Handling of Employee Personal Problems is Critical to Maintaining Workforce Efficiency

Strategy Driven

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. But that would be in a perfect world.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. I disagree with this priority. That’s just 2.1%