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On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy. When it comes to long-term career happiness, money and titles wear off pretty quickly.

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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

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

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’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.