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Possibility Maximizer: Fresh Milk Newsletter From Contented Cows

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. The Contented Cow Partners have been producing this newsletter regularly for over five years.   Now go Maximize Possibility!   Now go Maximize Possibility!

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Billons of Dollars Wasted, Part Two - What Happened Next.

Building Personal Strength

Instead, we evolved our company into a human resource development product business. To address the problem with a technology solution, my company began development of ProStar , a web-based learner support system to serve as a "virtual coach" during the period of follow-up. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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We Can Now Automate Hiring. Is that Good?

Harvard Business Review

When the economy turned down first in the recession of 2001 and then massively so in the Great Recession starting in 2008, unemployed candidates flooded employers with applications, and companies had no choice but to use software to process and screen them. Hiring Human resources Information & technology'

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. Just look to the early days of Hewlett-Packard.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.