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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science. Business education Career planning Education' Everybody eats.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Industries with a moderate representation of women leaders include: food, banking and telecommunications services.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. It’s much more common than it used to be.