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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

.” He suggests asking a colleague from another department or division to sit in on one of your team meetings and “give you feedback on where you’re focusing your energy and attention.” ” Besides, Dillon adds, you shouldn’t “waste your energy” on disliking a colleague.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

Managing a toxic person can eat up your time, energy, and productivity. Case Study #1: Give direct feedback and support the rest of the team. Christina Del Villar, the director of marketing at accounting software firm Webgility, managed a small team at a start-up earlier in her career. ” Don’t get distracted.

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality.

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The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. A Green Vision. “But

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

trillion in government support for seven "strategic emerging industries," including alternative energy, biotechnology, next-gen IT, high-end manufacturing equipment, and advanced materials. Case studies around corporate adaptation to technology — or the lack thereof — should feature much more prominently.