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Impressive Skills to Put on a Resume

HR Digest

Strong Work Ethic. Six Sigma techniques. Collaboration. Self-Confidence. Handling Pressure. Leadership. Conflict Resolution. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness.

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Overcoming Leadership Myopia

Michael Lee Stallard

We want to be respected, to be recognized for our talents, to belong, to have autonomy or control over our work and our lives, to experience personal growth, and to do work that we believe is worthwhile and in a way that we feel is ethical. It’s how we are wired. We feel more energetic, more optimistic, and more fully alive.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon. Streamlining a process with Lean Six Sigma fits this mental model: you focus your product development on making things perfect before releasing them to the market.