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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business Review

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. Based on the research results, sales, IT, and engineering have more internal clout to push through their projects as opposed to accounting, human resources, and marketing.

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