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Is Your Employee Ready to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business

Perhaps this person volunteers and recently ran a campaign for a nonprofit. Once you have a sense of the aspiring manager’s interest level and past experience, you need to get a handle on her “understanding of the organization—its culture, its needs, and where she thinks it’s going,” says Ranieri.

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You Need to Manage Digital Projects for Outcomes, Not Outputs

Harvard Business

And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. Case Study: Putting This into Practice. In 2014 the Taproot Foundation wanted to create a digital service that would connect nonprofit organizations with skilled professionals who wanted to donate their services.

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How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired

Harvard Business

Perhaps you didn’t fit in with the company’s culture, or you and your boss didn’t see eye to eye. Say, for instance, your dismissal was due to a personality clash with your manager or a mismatched cultural fit. Case Study #1: Devise a plan for talking about your old job and what you want out of your next.