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HP Headed to Hotel California?

Women on Business

Deciding that personal computing is not a lucrative market is like spitting on small businesses. I think that so much could have been done and couple this decision with the move to pull the touchpad off the market so quickly and you have a strategic disaster.

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Tips for Conducting Effective Off-Site Job Interviews

Chart Your Course

While renting a hotel suite is not the best idea, if you have the money to do so, reserving a small conference room in a hotel often works well. You can also decide to hold the interview at a coffee shop, restaurant or in a large lobby of a hotel.

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Riverside Auto Group: A Roadmap to Improved Customer Service, Employee Engagement and Increased Profits

Chart Your Course

And while CEO Tim Dagenais says that’s pretty good for a company that size in those Upper Peninsula markets, he wanted to do better. Dagenais had high expectations, some of which included: Train employees to provide “guest” service similar to service in high-end hotels.

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Book Review: Culture Connection

LDRLB

For example, Four Seasons Hotels puts candidates through five separate interviews. Other companies are integrating their HR and Marketing departments because they see their culture as being synonymous with their brand (I have noticed this emerging trend in my own research as well). New York: McGraw Hill.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Chip Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain has and shares how creating an "employee pyramid" helped him to save his company from failing during the challenging and uncertain times following 9/11.  Why?  Why?

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How to Attract Skilled Workers with Your Company Culture

Chart Your Course

As a strategic asset, it will create market shares for the company. Other organizations with powerful brand cultures include Zappos and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Culture as an Asset Though you will most likely never see it on a balance sheet, researchers list corporate culture as a strategic asset that needs to be managed.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.