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Smart Ways To Enhance the Efficiency of Your Business

Strategy Driven

For instance, you can find a company specializing in human resource management and payroll or outsource for QuickBooks bookkeeping services if no one in your team is savvy with accounting. It only requires that you incorporate such technology to increase the efficiency of your workforce. Incentivize Your Employees.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.”

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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. One innovative firm in the Bay Area, Flexperience, has created a different talent market: experienced professionals who seek flexible work opportunities.

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How Homesickness Can Harm Migrants Performance At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers quizzed workers at an Indian technology company. The firm typically allows workers to travel home for religious festivals, such as Diwali, but only in their first year on the job. The company randomly assigns people to work at one of eight production centers across India.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. It is a manifesto of human creativity. Humans Create Futures.

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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

Recently, African business leaders have focused on innovation in the workplace and the imperative to nurture and grow talent on the continent. For three days, Dan and I had a precession of experts ranging from leadership development and human resources to senior executives and protocol legends. Johannesburg, South Africa.

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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business Review

He has the perspective to see Rosetta Stone’s reach in these areas because he travels the world meeting customers and spending time with educational institutions and the students and teachers in them. Senior executives struggle with burnout just like everyone else, and technology has made this issue more prevalent than ever.