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Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken

Harvard Business Review

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. All of this has culminated in the new trend of eliminating vacation policies, so that employees can make work-life balance decisions that work for them.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations

Harvard Business Review

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. Short term: A CCA does not represent a new position or a new career: it is a temporary place in which the individual can channel their ideas or abilities, and once the project is finished CCAs are dissolved.

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

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This battle has implications for who sets educational policy and gets to decide the future of public education.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

One resulting project was ‘KFC Kalendar,’ an advertising campaign that showcased community events and public service announcements to diverse communities. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Yes and here I stand.”