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Six Rules to Hire By

Chart Your Course

The economy continues to improve with increased job creation in 2013. Every person hired contributes to a company’s culture with their talents, ethics and enthusiasm, and a bad hire is a waste of time, energy and money. Check references. Checking references is a simple way to validate the image a new hire portrays.

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Ego Free Leadership

Coaching Tip

Between 2009 and 2013, while many in his industry closed their doors during the Great Recession, Encore's revenues and profits increased 300%, operating cost declined 30%, and the stock price rose 1,200%. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Self-Coaching Books in ebook or paperback editions: .

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The Best Collection of Advice for New Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Scholtes and then put in on your bookshelf within arm’s reach of your chair and keep referring to it. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself - your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Big Data poses challenges that have to be addressed by all areas of responsibility of a company: legal, ethical, marketing, personnel, risk management and financial. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Three Ways to Say No to a Reference Request

Harvard Business Review

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. Less than three months later, he received a call from his former boss Theo — in search of a reference letter himself. The best references come from people who know you, your character, and your work product extremely well.

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Is It Good When We Know How Much Our Boss Makes?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. Indeed, the practice became so pervasive that the Norwegians started to refer to it as ‘tax porn’. Since 2001 this process of snooping was made that bit easy by moving the records online.

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How Do We Feel When We Know What Our Colleagues Earn?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. What’s more, a similar analysis of happiness-income relationships in Germany, where no such pay transparency is present, showed that it remained stable over nearly 30 years from 1985-2013.