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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

Diversity and equal opportunity are a compulsory part of any company’s human resource plan. But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Construction industry.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. Together, we identify deficiencies and implement solutions.

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How to Create a Priorities Map

Modern Servant Leader

For example, the CEO may have very different priorities than the VP of Human Resources. For example, Accounting, Finance and Information Technology teams. By taking the time to map out these priorities you create a constructive perspective of the realities in your operating relationship.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T.,

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

These findings suggest that a shift in managerial approach may have a constructive role to play in alleviating sweatshop labor conditions. Nike and other multinationals are not the only ones promoting this view.