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Rebooting Work: How to Make Work— Work for You

Leading Blog

Rebooting Work by Silicon Valley legend Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler is a sensible look at the changing nature of the workplace and how you can use emerging technologies to take charge of your career. Understanding and embracing today’s technological trends is the fastest way to travel to the career of your dreams. ”.

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A 5 Step Action Plan to Require of Colleges.

Rich Gee Group

They have thrived on parents willing to give-in on this well-constructed perceived rite-of-passage known as college. If colleges are to resume operations in the fall, it will not be normal as they wish it to be, but rather, it will begin to reflect college-in-the-new-normal. Colleges will underestimate the new parent-fortitude!

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river. When fellow travelers point this out, she’s incredulous: “You don’t understand,” she says. “If

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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The Mood in Tokyo, One Week After

Harvard Business Review

I believe their governments did caution them about travelling to Japan.) As we approached Nippori Station on the East of Tokyo the announcer apologized that the train was three minutes late, explaining that they were "operating at lower speeds for the purpose of energy conservation."

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. Could men have done the same?

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