Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. There’s no 911 to dial for white-collar crime.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Be willing to be scattered.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) These three dimensions of employability and career success have strong links with broad psychological traits. The what question is in part context-dependent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

That work brought me back, as so many things do, to Coase''s early writings — in particular his two searingly critical yet insightful essays, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960). Yet "The Problem of Social Cost" has proven to be one of the most-cited articles in the history of economics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Manufacturing is not the most glamorous business, and MBA recruiters are known for tempting people into more “prestigious” careers. There is no cost to you. I can try to arrange for WeDiggIt to cover those costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. One of America's most sophisticated design and engineering critics observed that: "I have repeatedly heard articulate people say that their family's latest automobile purchase hinged on which cup holders worked best for them.". Airy — dare I say arrogant?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. 2 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The costs of a bad hire are staggering. A recent survey by Career Builder reports more than two-thirds of employers were affected by a bad hire last year, according to AOL Jobs. We always sought individuals with high character strengths and strong work ethics. Now, eight years later, his software designs are winning awards.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

Lots of people are planning to work beyond the traditional retirement age, and many of them are looking to make a career change (moving into a not-for-profit, etc…). Maybe you could get 20% off the registration cost with your AARP membership. Building Block leadership development programs. Global leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." We want to make cars that are better than drivers," says one Google engineer.

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