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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) After all, mining is enormous logistics operations transporting ore from one side of the planet to another, with a bit of mining and processing attached.

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

Harvard Business Review

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry.

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). As female entrepreneurship gains steam, interest from venture capitalists will grow as well.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. However, remaining U.S. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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How Geisinger Treats Diabetes by Giving Away Free, Healthy Food

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >. Diabetes has long been one of the most expensive medical conditions.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. We had near-weekly visits from the Colorado Department of Public Health because of patient complaints and code violations. Value everyone’s perspective.