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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

“In our study, we refer to the uncertainty that senior employees feel about their status as ‘the worn-out syndrome,’ which is similar to the well-known imposter syndrome that is associated with a feeling of inadequacy.

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Keep Your Cost Per Customer Low

Strategy Driven

In essence, the acquisition cost refers to how much you are likely to spend on a prospect lead to turn them into a customer. If you are familiar with this definition of the acquisition cost, you might assume that customer costs refer to the thing. Paid marketing doesn’t have to break the bank. Improve your SEM campaigns.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Thanks for commenting.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. This is typical of the stage of Big Bang Disruption we refer to as “Entropy,” when the supply chain supporting products and services displaced by a disruptive innovation collapse into a kind of economic black hole.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. President Obama said it plainly in a recent interview : “We have owned the Internet. million jobs.

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