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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

They ensure their people have access to both the financial and human resources they need to get the job done and cut them loose to do their thing. As CEO of PQ Corporation, I experienced a minor OSHA recordable accident while traveling on business. If you can’t trust your bank, who can you trust? Live your values.

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Proactivity - Solve Problems WhileThey Are Still Small

Building Personal Strength

Monday, November 8, 2010 Proactivity - Solve Problems WhileThey Are Still Small When people ask me why I don’t do consulting work anymore, I recall the most challenging project I ever had, which was to present training in creative problem solving to the mid-level managers of Banamex (National Bank of Mexico) – 20 years ago.

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Create Your Own Prosperity :: Women on Business

Women on Business

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? I would love to travel, but I will never have that kind of money.” “The Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Money never comes easily to me.” “I

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

Dina Bakst, founder of New York–based A Better Balance , is an advocate of making schedules predictable and avoiding telling employees at the last minute that they need to stay late, come in early, or travel on short notice. Sometimes, work travel produces the need for more or different coverage. ” Offer flexibility. .”

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Beware Africa's "Middle Class"

Harvard Business Review

The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times , the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.

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How an American Express Executive Drives Growth

Harvard Business Review

Schulman: The global head of human resources at American Express was on the board at Virgin Mobile, where I was CEO. They’re unbanked or under-banked or, as we call it, unhappily banked. Prior to joining American Express in 2010, Schulman was CEO of Virgin Mobile and Priceline.