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The Human Impact of Rapid Tech Change

Lead Change Blog

Companies are increasingly utilizing automation technologies to increase productivity and innovation. These companies find themselves managing complex organizational change, with challenges that will vary depending on the professional levels and geographic diversity of their human resources.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business.

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Finally Get on TV with the Right Pitch :: Women on Business

Women on Business

If you are the owner of a women’s clothing line or the Editor in Chief of a woman’s fashion publication and you are interested in getting on The Early Show to discuss spring and summer fashion trends, tailor your pitch to meet the news of that specific audience – (educated, sophisticated, female oriented).

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. I’m not referring to the passing of our own family members, friends and coworkers, but the tragic deaths of the celebrities, socialites and business moguls that we’ve known and loved (or not). The brilliant writer, J.D.

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Still holding on to “life's leg warmers?” What would Jane Fonda.

Women on Business

Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. If those in your network are enhancing your professional circle, and exposing you to new opportunities and new ways of thinking, keep in contact on a regular basis.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. Human resources Managing people Work life balance'

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We Need Both Networks and Communities

Harvard Business Review

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. ” In contrast, the word has now become fashionable to describe what are really networks , as in the “business community”—”people with common interests [but] not common values, history, or memory.”