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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Here’s one of his bullet points: “Multi-year brand awareness-building and marketing campaigns contributed to 23X customer acquisition and >90% YOY customer retention.” ” Résumé Story.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

They have to prove themselves 10 times over before they’re actually given the opportunity, so their development takes longer.” Guidance can be provided one-on-one or through high-potential development programs. Four women mentioned an absence of sponsorship as a hindrance to their career development.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees. This is easier said than done, however.

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Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones

Harvard Business

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. I surveyed 125 senior HR leaders attending a conference on onboarding, asking them about the level of organizational support given to leaders who are onboarding vs. making internal moves.

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Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan Including Elimination of Fractional Reserve Lending and Deposit Insurance

MishTalk

Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan I am somewhat surprised by this development, but Iceland is investigating a banking system that will eliminate all of the above flaws. Few indeed have suggested leaving the decision to the market. The free market will simply adjust by changing the purchasing power, or effectiveness of the gold-unit.