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The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor

Harvard Business Review

Software-driven marketplaces such as HourlyNerd , UpCounsel , and Behance that are facilitating the fast and accurate match of the supply and demand for high-quality, experienced talent. Continued improvements to services like Skype and Google Hangouts. Fortunately, we’ve solved far more complex problems.

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

In general, there are two explanations for why PM doesn''t work: One, merely being ranked provokes a "fight or flight” response, which gets in the way of "thoughtful, reflective conversations" (but is great for when you''re being chased by wild animals, which probably isn''t exactly what your manager is going for).

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Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?

Harvard Business Review

But before we can get excited about this technological innovation, we need to: Start with credible hypotheses about exactly how an employee’s voice quality or speech affects job performance in a target role. Hiring Human resource management' Think of the voice profiles of a singer. Not at all.

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

Women on Business

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.