David A Fields
JULY 31, 2018
Consulting can sometimes feel like an unequal, parent-child type relationship. They set rules. They control your payments. They tell you to turn your music down. But the relationship isn’t as unequal as it seems. In fact, it needn’t be unequal at all.
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Kenny Williamson/Getty Images. No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short. When Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 full-time employees in the United States, we found that that 77% had experienced burnout at their current jobs, and more than half said they’d felt it more than once.
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Emerson Consulting Group
JULY 31, 2018
By Ken Lizotte CMC. Enjoy this excerpt from The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs (Maven House Press). If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. The credential of book authorship–despite the rise of social media, YouTube, and Internet marketing–holds no equal.
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Ted Soqui/Getty Images. You’ve applied for a job. Your resume has passed the first screen; maybe you’ve been interviewed, once, twice, or even more. You might feel you are in the homestretch, with a job offer on the near horizon. Then, a new hurdle appears in your path to a new role. Enter the job audition — stage left. It’s become typical for employers, as part of the applicant vetting process, to ask candidates to work on or complete a project, or in some other way demo
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MBO Partners
JULY 31, 2018
What soft skills are, why they are important, and how you can improve yours.
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Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Roger Martin, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business, offers two main reasons General Electric has lost its competitiveness. GE’s stock has been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Martin blames pressures from activist investors as well as a short-sighted mergers and acquisitions strategy. He’s the author of “ GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems.
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Wunderfool/Getty Images. In January of 2018, Annette Zimmermann, vice president of research at Gartner, proclaimed : “By 2022, your personal device will know more about your emotional state than your own family.” Just two months later, a landmark study from the University of Ohio claimed that their algorithm was now better at detecting emotions than people are.
Harvard Business
JULY 31, 2018
Melissa Ross/Getty Images. Amazon’s highly visible search for a second headquarters has offered one tremendous public benefit: it has raised public awareness of what bad economic development is. Even Saturday Night Live satirized the lengths to which local officials will go to woo a major company, which include offering massive amounts of taxpayer subsidies, despite dubious economic returns.
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