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Stay Focused During Meetings: Best Practices to Incorporate

Chart Your Course

To get the most out of this substantial cost center, employees and employers need to maximize attention and retention at every meeting. It may seem very philosophic but in practice the attentive Satsang meeting goer is developing a team that can assist in accomplishing daily goals.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. One of the things that surprised me most about security at Facebook is the level of attention and support that we receive from the company’s senior management team. Insight Center. The Future of Cybersecurity.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. manufacturers do source from domestic suppliers, they tend to regard them purely as a cost center. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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The Internet Shouldn’t Run on Dirty Energy

Harvard Business Review

There are clear signs of a potential shift in energy sourcing and consumption—and managers of IT and services operating in the cloud should start paying attention to how they can contribute. Here’s why now is the time right to invest in renewable energy sources for the internet: Renewable energy can help reduce a cost center.

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