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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

There was the Great Recession in 2008. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). (I They will also tell everyone else, "Hey, sales are down 50%.”.

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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

MishTalk

It may be viewed by some as kicking the can down the road, but it may prove to the state that we need a (countywide) sales tax.". City bureaucrats and the PEL can hem and haw and p**s and moan, but can-kicking exercises, "scoops", and tax hikes will only make the problem worse. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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Truly Inane Bloomberg Analysis On Gold

MishTalk

For example, please consider Gold Euphoria Won’t Last With Yellen’s Rally Fading , a truly remarkable exercise because it took three Bloomberg writers to produce. Sales of American Eagle gold coins by the U.S. Mint sales are down 60% and hedge funds holding futures holdings are down 52%. American buying is slowing.

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The Art of the Elevator Pitch

Harvard Business

If there is no logline, more often than not, there is no sale. As an exercise, challenge yourself to keep it under 140 characters, short enough to post on the old version of Twitter (before the platform allowed 280 characters per tweet). ” In 2008 it was that the MacBook Air was “the world’s thinnest notebook.”

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Municipal Bonds an "Outrageous Bargain"? Compared to What?

MishTalk

Almost forty years later and having supervised the municipal trading/sales and banking areas at four different investment banks I still am on the watch for the green bugs in the milo. Greater care must now be exercised and I would suggest that many of you should begin a re-examination of what you own and whether you wish to keep owning it.

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Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office

Harvard Business

” Back in 2008 the narcolepsy medication Modafinil was labeled the “entrepreneur’s drug of choice” by TechCrunch. ADHD medication sales are growing rapidly, with annual revenues of $12.9 Although these drugs can be purchased over the internet, their legal status varies between countries. billion in 2015.

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