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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment. Chances are tax rates will remain the same until 2013; thus, if you can afford the luxury of deferring income now, push it into 2012 and reduce your 2011 taxable income immediately. She now lives in Washington, D.C. Image: flickr.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Qualitative evidence suggests the program achieved the agreed objectives. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold. Their job is nearly impossible, but absolutely critical. Affiliates.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

How did you do in the area of objection handling? Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Entrepreneurs who handle their personal finances this way are prone to carry the same habits over into their business planning.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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