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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

The Media’s Impact on Being Positive. The media also feeds us negative headlines with seventeen bad news stories to one good one because we are attracted to that – which is sensational. Social media, too, is adding to the tsunami of negative noise with unending gossip and trivia. Can you relate to this?

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11 Habits of Truly Terrific Employees

Rick Conlow

So, when a news story that covers your company or job pops up in the media or in a professional journal, read it, clip it, and e-mail a scan of it to your co-workers, team, or boss. Attend all the training available and then some. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people?

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Archstone Consulting Culture and Interview Tips

Management Consulted

While originally founded as an independent strategic firm, Archstone Consulting was acquired by leading enterprise benchmarking firm The Hackett Group in 2009. Intern pay and training at Archstone Consulting are on par with other consulting firms, and prior interns have found it a good foot in the door for landing permanent positions.

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Business intelligence vs. predictive analytics: Turn key differences into advantages

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It encompasses data mining, data visualization, performance benchmarking, and descriptive analytics—techniques for parsing data to generate reports, performance measures and trends to reveal insights and make better business decisions. Business intelligence answers the questions, “who are our most valuable/least valuable customers?”

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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business

Plenty of media coverage — and companies’ attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. One mid-sized automation company I worked with had been spreading its social media efforts out among employees, adding posting duties to their existing tasks.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By looking at the CX lifecycle though granular intents, companies can 1) benchmark where they are strong/blemished, 2) identify where a human touch in a contact center helps/over-indexes the needs of a customer, and 3) solve for customers’ CX needs with surgical precision.”

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6 Things New Grads Should Know Before Joining a Startup

Harvard Business

It’s also going to be a lot harder to benchmark the offer they give you against salaries at other firms. If you don’t know how to do something, you can tap into a training budget that will let you develop your skills at conferences or workshops in fun cities. And benefits? But work at a start-up and you are the department.

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