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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

Before the employer consults with an accountant or a tax advisor, it is essential to understand the basic kinds of retirement benefit plans. Golden handcuffs are specially designed to encourage long-term efficient relationships with the employees. As such, professional guidance is necessary.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

Disappointment doesn't discriminate; no matter what industry the individual operated in, what role they had been given, or whether they were soaring successes or mired in failure, five dominant themes shone through. Another consultant said, "I'd love to leave the stress behind, but I don't think I'd be good at anything else."

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. I would have asked too many tough questions, and that was not what they wanted consultants for.