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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Annual off-site meetings to change dates on unsuccessful strategies don't make sense. Leaders facing environmental conditions like today without scenario planning will likely either stop strategic planning and only operate in the short term or take too much risk and gamble on one specific future. HR Magazine. Cornish, E.

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NSA Breaks Into Secure Communication Links of Google and Yahoo; Italian Magazine Claims NSA Monitors Pope

MishTalk

In this slide from a National Security Agency presentation on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where user data resides. The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR , operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ.

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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

But if you want to thrive in the post-COVID world, you’ve got to start working on operational improvements now. The salespeople still served as the voice of the customer, maintained the relationship with the accounts, set up the meetings, and managed the orders, but it was the designers who merchandised the line for the accounts.

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The 1099 Bind

Martinka Consulting

Magazine had an article titled, “The 1099 Bind.” to operate this business (other than normal business licenses)? A few months ago Inc. ” The lead example was about a (now closed) on-demand housekeeping business in the Bay Area that ran into trouble, i.e. lawsuits, over “are we employees or are we contractors?”

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France Tax Revenues €5.5 Billion Lower than Expected; Poll Shows 92% Do Not Believe Hollande's Tax Promises

MishTalk

Five days after the downgrade of France by Standard & Poor''s, a ministerial meeting was called to control of public expenditure from 2015 to 2017. SURVEY The survey Way Opinion for Le Figaro Magazine are clear: the French want to reduce public spending, but do not believe in the government''s promises to do so.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

Coming up with each new payroll has been terrifying him more and more as each deadline demands yet another inventive solution for meeting that period’s payday. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

In a world filled with tweets, ever-breaking news, a thousand TV channels and podcasts galore, is there any point to toiling away at an article, then seeking a journal or magazine willing to publish it? They then hold each other accountable for commitments made from one meeting to another. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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