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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Business-to-consumer subscription businesses have attracted more than 11 million U.S.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing. Albert Ponsteen is a seasoned TOC expert, mentored by Eli Schragenheim.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. Digital players wield outsize market power.