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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. a start-up that was acquired by Intel in 2009. Morale sunk, and our productivity did, too.

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The Best HR Podcasts of 2023: 9 Recommendations

HR Digest

On any fair day, the balancing act performed by the unsung heroes of a company – the human resources team (HR) , is quite overwhelming. Interweaving between a podcast and a web radio show, the Happy Hour podcast was launched in 2009. The podcast is renowned for its lively conversations that challenge myths and thoughts.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

Although the recession ended in 2009, here we are five years later and unemployment for Generation Y (1982-1995) remains near its cyclical peak across the world. The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership.

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A Tale of Leadership, Marketing and Blogging from Debbie Laskey

Eric Jacobson

If business leaders invest in sales strategies, information technology, human resources, and other specialty areas of their businesses, why not marketing? DEBBIE LASKEY : As I wrote in my first blog post in November 2009, "Should You Blog? Question: What have you learned during your 15-year blogging journey?

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Gauging an Employee’s Emotional Well-Being in a Virtual World: Warning Signs and Ways to Help

Great Leadership By Dan

Technology obscures the subtleties that we detect in a person. He has held several leadership roles with Batesville Casket Company, the world’s largest funeral service products provider, and was named the 2009 Human Resource Executive of the Year for Indiana. Body language is limited.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? Marti Konstant .

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