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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Search engine optimization is the overriding tool for businesses to increase their visibility online and raise brand awareness, and whether you hire the most established and experienced best SEO company around or handle such matters in-house, taking control of your media output will help you to understand your customers better.

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Google: The search engine giant announced at the end of July that all employees would need to be vaccinated to work from its campus. UPS: United Parcel Service will require employees in certain U.S. Frontier Airlines: Denver-based Frontier Airlines announced a Covid-19 vaccine policy directing all employees to get inoculated by Oct.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. He doesn’t ask, he just does. A burned out leader is useless.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. With Apple design and user experience as so inextricably linked they are one and the same.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. And don't forget your equity-based compensation. BL: Not really.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. For those now located in 1-in-10-year flood plains, there will be growing demand for engineers who can design solutions for reducing flood exposure. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas.