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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

Coaching Tip

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. The "Five Principles of Mars": quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, freedom. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes.

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An Interview with Diane Gherson, CHRO at IBM, on Driving Organizational Transformation

HR Digest

This has made the company more efficient in dealing with talent issues, matching employees and career opportunities and proactively retaining its most valued skills. The HR Digest: Looking back on your career, what educational influence was the most important in enabling you to become a leader?

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Virtually Selling

Coaching Tip

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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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. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Expand from U.S.

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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. But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Coase had observed first-hand the efficiencies to be gained by internalizing market transactions. Operations Research Strategy' I haven''t actually seen Prof.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. They had no career consequences — no one outside of HR, not even managers’ bosses, saw them.