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5 WAYS TO HELP AUTOMATE YOUR BUSINESS

Strategy Driven

Automation is a process of replacing manual human needed in executing tasks with any form of technology. Automation is an area of business that is of immense benefit as it uses technology to perform business tasks or processes, where human effort or supervision would be otherwise needed.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. Thanks John, I have a client who are not exactly in a turn-around situation – at least they don’t think so – but they do need make a load of substantive changes. About John. December 13, 2011 at 3:50 am.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. Innovations.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches.

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If You Want to Be Happy at Work, Have a Life Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

With more of us wanting and expecting our jobs to provide not just a paycheck but also human needs like learning, community, and a sense of purpose, we wanted to know what specifically makes people happy at work. Is it fair pay and benefits? Having a great boss? A clear career path? Opportunities to learn?

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. We need to remind ourselves that educating skilled workforces is an investment opportunity. Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

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