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Corporate Citizenship

Providing jobs and making profits are no longer enough. What else are corporations doing?
- Depersonalizing Your Personal Management Philosophy
  As you develop your personal philosophy of management for application in your personal workplace circumstances, it is helpful to recall just how personal it really is. That is, while you may feel that your eyes are opening up to new ways...
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- Nurture Shock
  Po Bronson's new book, which he penned with Ashley Merryman, is shockingly insightful. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children walks through the latest research on parenting and education.It reveals everything from how our fear of...
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Corporate Tree

How to scale the corporate ladder without breaking any rungs.
- Don't Mention ROI for Social Media
  One is often told that getting the buy-in for a Social Media initiative requires some solid ROI calculation. One would have to weigh the pros and cons, how much it costs, try and evaluate the effort which is required, measure it and...
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- Investing in Knowledge
  In a 21st century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an internet connection; where a child born in Dallas is competing with children in Delhi; where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know –...
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Glass Ceiling

How are women navigating today’s corporate world?
- Low Prices Versus Value
  I received an email over the weekend from frustrated colleague in the book publishing industry.“All we are hearing from our retailers is “price, price, price.” Yet we know 75 per cent of the consumers buying (our genre) are women....
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- Anger Management is Good Business
  So Serena Williams let the f-bombs hurl at the US Open and it cost her the championship title. For those of you who are not tennis fans, just Google it or go to You Tube and you’ll know what I’m talking about. She got a $10,000...
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Green Business

Sustainability is a core value of a 21st century business.
- Electricity That's Cheaper Than Free
  Would you believe that there are places and times when power companies generate so much renewable energy that they give it away? In west Texas and Illinois, when the wind blows at night and nuclear plants run around-the-clock, power...
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- UPS, FedEx Battle over Green Credentials
  Like sports rivalries, corporate rivalries are fun. Think about the TV ad campaigns inspired by the competition between Microsoft and Apple. FORTUNE once put the Roger Enrico, who was then the CEO of PepsiCo, inside a Coke bottle on the...
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Innovation & Design

Ingenuity, creativity and a “can-do” spirit are the driving forces behind every successful economy.
- The House (Computer) Always Wins
  Bill Seebek was playing a $4 slot machine for a half hour in a Florida casino, when the sirens of you-just-won-a-boatload-of-money sounded. He had won $166,666,666.65. He thought. The casino roped off the machine and after inspecting the...
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- Business Models Must Change to Adjust to Social Business
  Yesterday's post (Social Strategies Grow Out of the Culture, Not the Tactics) grew out of the news that the Dachis Group acquired Headshift. Two things you need to know to understand why this news might change the way businesses operate:1....
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Leadership

What are the best and brightest saying about this vital character trait?
- 10 Ways Managers Operationalize Their Intentions
  I was talking with a client today about her senior management team - what they do well and what they don't do well. The company spends a lot - terms of resources and time in helping leaders be self-aware (using various assessments and...
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- Managerial Malpractices
  The modern workplace is filled with stress, constant change, rampant conflict and employee disgruntlement. But managers frequently assume it can be remedied with a simple, even obvious, quick fix that will make everything alright. ...
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