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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! My unique methodology has lead to over a dozen guest posts and podcast invitations — helping thousands of professionals improve their digital marketing. Would you recommend this product/service?

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit. Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. & Lord, R. Collins, J. HarperBusiness.

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Grossly Distorted Procedures: Mish Proposal to Raise GDP Calculation

MishTalk

Here''s the question of the day: Does GDP stand for Gross Domestic Product or Grossly Distorted Procedures? One of the reasons I ask is the latest push by countries to include prostitution and drugs sales in GDP calculations. Italy : Cocaine Sales to Boost Italian GDP in Boon for Budget. Isn''t the product the same?

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

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Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective By Jim Smith on August 16, 2010. The organization is people and technologies, which are matched together to produce an outcome, a product or a service. Think of technology in the broadest sense: Technology=Methodology. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. Guest Writer Submissions.

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What 45 Years of Data Tells Us About Globalization’s Influence on the Shadow Economy

Harvard Business

The shadow sector, or informal economy, includes everything from illicit sidewalk sales of counterfeit handbags to large corporations that evade taxes and ignore regulations. Methodology To measure the shadow sector, we used the global estimates created by the economists Ceyhun Elgin and Oguz Oztunali to measure informal activity.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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