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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

An employer must take up professional advice as well as guidance for offering retirement benefits to employees. Top-hat plans: This is a non-funded plan which is maintained by an employer to provide any deferred compensation to a specific group of management or highly compensated employees. Work Smart.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Communications.