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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. The women in my sample were asked to think back on two defining career moments that best prepared them to advance. How People Get Ahead.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall. Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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The Productivity Payoff From the Corporate Lattice

Harvard Business Review

Frontier Communications, for example, has found that work-at-home agents are 25% more productive and have double the retention rate of work-in-the-call-center agents. In fact, there's a lot of evidence that lattice ways to work can actually raise productivity. Managers need training to help them see the benefits and accept this change.