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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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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

And yes, we began to see a trend develop from the lens of professionals who work in the trenches every day on finding and developing talent; the bottom line seems to be, it is all centered around understanding the power of people-centric leading. Johannesburg, South Africa. To say the response was overwhelming was an understatement!

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Ideas come from everywhere! Try new approaches.

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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. By doing so, they can more readily adapt not just to technology trends but also to organizational and societal trends.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

The trend is a disturbing one not only for its societal implications but because microfinance organizations more than ever must be equipped to make good decisions — and decisions are always enhanced by the sharing of diverse perspectives. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Harvard Business Review

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No Deloitte is well on its way to staying ahead of the trend. Let's face it, for most people, on a typical Sunday morning, if given the choice between 'Am I gonna watch ESPN, or am I gonna do some training?'

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

It can be seen as a more client-centric way of doing business, enabled by technology that consolidates and intelligently distributes pertinent information about clients, sales, marketing effectiveness, responsiveness, and market trends. Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. creativity.