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Wild Office Holiday Party Statistics | 2022

HR Digest

However, it’s only an understatement to say that office holiday party statistics are as wild and interesting as they occur on the rooftops of corporate houses. Here are a few examples: The first recorded office holiday party took place in 1923 at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List?

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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise

Harvard Business Review

Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. For example, one new engineer reported that his dad called to say, “There’s a problem with this drop-down menu.”

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The Olympics' Greatest Feat: An Unpaid, Highly Engaged Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Of course, we sometimes see such passion in the business world, in the wild enthusiasms of R&D professionals in innovative engineering and pharmaceutical companies. They give new life to the old-fashioned notion that good work gives us good societies.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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The New HR Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies. I’m connected.”