Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Let me be very clear here - as the CEO or entrepreneur, YOU and not your legal counsel, marketing director, ad agency or PR firm must make this choice. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. 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.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

In other words we operate on the principle that equity means treating everyone in the same way. I wonder what we might we invent if we threw out the whole idea of a PR Process as “the&# answer? What has to be present for a PR system to actually work? My coaching to one client this year was to declare a do-over!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

In my experience leading and managing teams over two decades, I’ve found that job personalization — that is, fitting jobs to employees rather than fitting employees to jobs — is one of the best ways to maximize engagement. Ask the person to describe themselves and their career, and listen closely.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

You should be spending at least 1,000 hours a year--that's about six hours a week; about an hour a day — preparing for a new career (Just in case that your industry goes the way of publishing, pay phones, photo finishing and the like and either disappears or radically changes to the point where there is no room for you.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? Not likely. That would only tip off the mendacious.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

More importantly, the new edition of Groundswell offers more proof than ever that prepared organizations can reap significant financial benefits in product development, marketing, PR, sales, and customer retention. Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success. by Thomas J. Are you stuck in the same ruts?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 26, 2021

With the advent of social media, the operative word “fast” doesn’t do justice to the speed at which bad news travels today. The second common reaction is to launch a high-profile PR stunt to repair the damage. There’s an old saying that bad news travels fast. As Doug Larson, the columnist, said, “Bad news travels fast.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. ” This tactic is “attractive and appealing” to hiring managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. Stop Judging Me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Begin by saying something like, “We are seriously considering Mary to be a project manager here. Find ways in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. Meg is a freelance writer, blogger, and children’s book author and merchandiser, and she owns her own marketing and PR consultancy.

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