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Think Soft Skills Can't Be Developed? Think Again
I often hear entrepreneurs say that they hire based on soft skills, because they can't be taught. I've been hiring and guiding people for 20 years, and I vehemently disagree. In some cases, people...
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The Future of the Employee Voice Is Social
Employees want the same today at work as they want in their personal life: speed, honesty, two-way communication and an easy way to put forward their point of view. There is still a place for a...
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Writing Your Blurb or Bio: The Essential Points
Your blurb or bio is a short, concise, effective introduction and description of yourself. It can be used and inserted in myriad ways: for your company profile, as an introduction at meetings or...
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5 Ways to Make Growth Less Painful
The CEO of Lego, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, once said, "I think it is a golden rule in business that most companies don't die of starvation, but die of indigestion." "Indigestion" is what a business gets...
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How Technology Is Changing the Game for Skilled Professionals
Today, Thumbtack, America's largest online and mobile marketplace for hiring skilled professionals, released a new report describing how skilled professionals are using new digital platforms to find...
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Stop Implementing These Productive Workplace Tips to Die Early
Are you an entrepreneur who is working hard to convert your startup dream into reality? Are you a work-from-home freelancer who is working hard to complete client's project? Are you an employee who is...
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Who Can Trump Trump's Ambitions?
Thomas Friedman seems to believe the Donald has almost sewed up a majority of the Republican Primary delegates and will be a formidable foe for Hillary, assuming she is the Democrat's candidate. But...
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Future of Work: Talent Shaping and Shapes , Circles and Pools. A Conversation...
The linear, continuous and compounding career has disappeared. No dispute. However, while the 'high potentials' continue to receive attention and direction, few companies have made much progress to...
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Are Our Leaders Losing Their Humility?
Listening to the media these days one would think that our leaders have lost all sense of humility, if indeed they ever had it. Donald Trump brags that he used a $1 million inheritance to create $10...
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Feed Your Winners; Starve Your Losers
Cash flow is always a sensitive subject with business owners. Here is one of my favorite ways to immediately increase your sales with no additional investment of time or money. How? By getting very...
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Design for Breakthrough Innovation in Startups
Co-written by Arnold Wasserman The opportunities for leveraging design are tremendous when developing breakthrough innovative offerings in new entrepreneurial ventures. Unsaddled with entrenched...
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The Management Span of Uncontrol
By Doug Kirkpatrick, US Partner at NuFocus Strategic Group According to Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report, US companies today have an average span of control -- the number of people...
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Do You Trade Freedom for Career Success?
Recently, I've been thinking about what "independence" and "freedom" mean to each of us as individuals. It seems to me that a country can be independent, yet its citizens might not live in a state of...
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The Economics of Obesity & Bariatric Surgery
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket." -Eric Hoffer"Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed." -Frank Lopez (from the...
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The World I Want Our Children to Have: Designing for the Circular Economy
What if we had a chance to live in a world where the carpets under our feet, rather than releasing toxic compounds, clean the air? Where carbon dioxide emissions, formerly destined to pollute the...
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The Leadership Wisdom of Sheri Thompson
Mrs. Sheri Thompson*** Sheri Thompson assumed her current leadership role as Chief Operating Officer of Prudential's Agency Lending Group approximately two years ago upon her arrival. She is also the...
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5 Ways to Give Your Business an Instant Death
Who the hell wants to kill their business? No one in their right mind would want to do that, right? Hopefully, you're here because you want to avoid these 5 mistakes... Yes, I hope you really came here...
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ETF, Smart Betas and Flash Crashes
This week's announcement by Goldman Sachs to launch a new Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) based on their popular hedge fund investing index has created a new wrinkle in the ongoing storyline of automation...
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So You Think You Can Invest: The Reality of Equity Crowdfunding Under a New Rule
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." ConfuciusInvestors Wanted If anything, May 16th, 2016 should be opened with the ringing of a bell, similar to...
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The Two "Other" Reasons Millennial Women Are Burning Out
Fast Company published an insightful article this week by Kelly Clay entitled "Why Millennial Women Are Burning Out." The subhead referred to the fact that it wasn't because they were becoming mothers....
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