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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. Have people been commoditized?

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Harness Talent Mobility

Skip Prichard

From demographics to technology, the economy is changing dramatically and so is the way we work. To help more workers thrive, and to make organizations more agile and efficient, we must understand these changes as they are occurring and redesign both business operating systems and our contract for work in America.

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Where the Green Jobs Really Are

Harvard Business Review

Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. So here's what you need to do: Stop working in the office. Offices and office hours once made good sense. What about my bottom line?

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Branch 3: Accounting, banking, investments, financial planning, benefits programs, real estate, fund raising for non-profit organizations and investor relations services for public companies.

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10 Ways to Build your Web Effectiveness :: Women on Business

Women on Business

For example, a real estate agent might post breaking news on condo developments and include walk-through videos, behind-the-scenes advice, pictures and plans of buildings, comments from current and potential owners, and a social networking component to create a community of condo owners in her area.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

To advance in one's career, it was most efficient to specialize. How many real estate professionals in Miami are closely watching Chinese economic developments? In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. Why's that?

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