HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Some are short-term, meant for immediate action and achievement. However, this is not always the case.

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 334

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 311

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". Most human projects, from eating lunch, to buying a house, choosing a career, and setting life goals, measure success along many dimensions.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Without a purposeful plan, Davey says that “managers too often do what’s easy in the short-term and ask the most talented person” to do the hard work. Earlier in his career when Kyle headed up a team at Reuters, he managed a star performer named Janice. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. 2 percent).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

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Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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