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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

← To be or not to be: can authenticity at work limit your career options? After sitting through a few career and coaching discussions over the past week involving money, titles and career satisfaction, I felt a certain quote was worth repeating: “Don’t chase the paper, chase the dream.&# Hsieh credited P.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs.