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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. A friend of mine is a chemical plant manager and he said that he pays his engineers $110k and he is worried that they aren’t paying enough. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Case Study: Culture Clash in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. 2 Chemical Company, were very active.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? CHROs are standing at essentially the same crossroads that CFOs were in the 1980’s.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. Diversity Multinational Leadership'

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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