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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Confidentiality: Safeguarding Your Personal Information Another critical area of concern is the management of your data. Reputable firms will have robust Non-Disclosure Agreements and Privacy Policies and take extra care to work with their partners to protect your sensitive data, like contact information, finances, and formal resumes.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

The mob bosses constructed enduring crime rings using core economic concepts of corporate governance that lawful managers also must follow. These crews kept roughly 75 percent of their illicit profits, passing the remainder up as a type of franchising fee.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Corporate Cultures – Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., I came up with three major conclusions from this literature review: CEOs Do Matter a Lot. To answer this question, I considered several scientific studies of CEO impact. million in severance. million.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Performance-Based Pay for Executives Still Works

Harvard Business Review

And while it’s true, as they write, that “large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies,” I know of no peer-reviewed evidence that the crisis was actually due to poor incentives, and their article cites none.