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What’s That Musky Smell?

The Practical Leader

He’s like the high IQ, low EQ, dehumanizing retail/technology global VP who joined us (and met the Canadian leadership team for the first time) at a strategic planning retreat a few years ago. He went so far as to state, “you can be a complete a **e as long as you’re the smartest person in the room.”

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

There comes a time, however, when an extra hand is needed to get something done and I don’t want to hire someone long-term or for a lot of money. Since they don’t typically end up as long-term employees, you shouldn’t have to spend a lot of time training the person for the job. Enter an intern! Who’s on the Bus?

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. The essential message is that when masculine energy and compassion are divided from one another, tragedy is inevitable.

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The Anguish of Complexity: A Reflection

In the CEO Afterlife

This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. After buckets of red ink and much soul searching, our young management team came to terms with the fact that Nabob could not survive as a ‘generalist’ against multi-nationals twenty times its size.

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The Secret to Successful Recruiting

Strategy Driven

There must be a way for recruiters to ensure that they hire only the best and most promising candidates, those who are almost guaranteed to perform and stay in a role for the long term. At the same time, it will offer the options to either refer an employee or to send the advertisement to a friend. Quality Pre-Screening.

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5 Important Things to Remember as an Entrepreneur :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. If you do not love it then do not sell it! Sell relationships not just a service or product.

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Still holding on to “life's leg warmers?” What would Jane Fonda.

Women on Business

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! You don’t have to rip off the band-aid and do it all at one time.