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Why Should I Hire You Recruiting
One of the most searched questions on the Internet is, “Why should I hire you?” When it comes to recruiting, business leaders need to be asking that question. They also need to be asking, where can I find you? Here is the good news and the...
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“We’re Giving Ownership of Development to Individuals”
To understand how the “personal learning cloud” is changing the way companies think about developing executive talent, HBR editor Amy Bernstein and senior editor Daniel McGinn spoke with three heads of learning and development...
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The 8 Ways Companies Get Work Done, and How to Align Them
For much of the last 30 years, organizations have agonized about whether they should centralize or decentralize their operations. But today that debate is increasingly moot. Every organization is essentially a distributed one, with many...
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Leading Change in a Company That’s Historically Bad At It
Organizational change was once a seasonal experience. But today, managing continual disruption is a skill required of most leaders. Change management is the new management, which makes doing it effectively that much more difficult. Despite our...
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8 Most Popular Marketing Models
Marketing, as we know is the process of identifying, stimulating and satisfying customer’s genuine wants and needs. There are many different types of marketing models used by businesses. These models give us a framework to assess how...
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Don’t Put a Digital Expert in Charge of Your Digital Transformation
Who should you pick to lead your company’s digital transformation? Imagine you have a choice of three candidates: William – an insider who has a proven track record but doesn’t know much about digital; Sarah – a young...
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Do You Really Know Why Employees Leave Your Company?
More employees are voluntarily leaving their jobs than at almost any other time this millennium. When an employee quits, it can feel like a gut punch, leaving managers scrambling both emotionally and operationally. The loss can be particularly...
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8 Ways Marketers Can Show Their Work’s Financial Results
When we asked over 300 marketing leaders in the U.S. to identify the activities they find most challenging, the number one thing they reported, by a wide margin, was “demonstrating the impact of marketing actions on financial...
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How to Be a Rock Star at Work, Even If You Have No Talent
Talent is overrated. What's often more important is your image and how well you can capture the limelight. Let's face it: talent is overrated. The world is full of incredibly talented people who remain unknown and unappreciated. At the same,...
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5 Ways to Be a Rock Star at Work
By Angela Rose, Hcareers.com Thanks to movies such as “Rock Star,” “Almost Famous” and “This is Spinal Tap,” we all know what it means to be a rock star in the traditional sense. However, partying all night, sleeping all day, drinking...
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Trust to negotiate
“Years to earn, seconds to break”, it is often said when talking about trust. It is one of the most basic human being’s emotions: we all want to trust ourselves and that other people trust us. That is why, when we feel betrayed, wounds...
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Win win negotiation by getting to know the other party
One of the most important keys to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion is information. Obtaining the necessary data to better understand the other party is essential to properly prepare the process of conflict resolution. Today we are...
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How to control your emotions in a price negotiation towards the goal
In order to reach an agreement during a negotiation and make it a satisfactory one for both parties, it is important to control your emotions. If you have emotional control, it will be easier to lead the negotiation towards the goal. Emotional...
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5 Negotiation Tactics that Will Make your Business Grow
Resolving conflicts means facing undesirable situations, but sometimes that is just inevitable. With appropriate negotiation tactics, we will be able to deal with this scenario (the conflict), which occurs sometimes in virtually every job. Stay...
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The Two Sides of Selling: Emotion and Negotiation
When in one of my classes I claim that “selling is transmitting”, the listener tends to equate the word “transmit” with the transfer of a product or service from the seller to the buyer. Some of my students didn’t understand its real...
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When Should You Fire Your Child from the Family Business?
by Judy Lin Walsh and Ben Francois Tetra Images/Getty Images For years Charles dreamed of working side by side with his son, James, in the family business, a thriving manufacturing company that his father had founded and he had...
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Project Management Tips: 5 Steps Toward Being a Better Project Manager
Specialists in an efficient organization operate like cogs in a wheel, all doing their bit to churn out a finished product or service. There are some monumental tasks, however, outside a company's routine operations that invite their own kind...
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How to Make Sure Your Team is Continuously Learning
“If we had only stopped working for a minute or two and talked, then we would have done better!” This is a common refrain when people reflect on their performance in a team practice exercise. It seems that the more complicated the task, the...
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The CEO, but Not the Founder: How to Lead an Already-Established Tech Company
There are lessons to learn from the missteps of CEOs like Travis Kalanick and Carly Fiorina. Are you paying attention? There’s a certain dread-inducing inevitability that every company faces sooner or later: the moment the founder of a company...
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5 Tips for Hiring the Right 'Fit' Early in Your Company's Growth
Malcolm Friedberg Contributor While contemporary management gurus may take exception to Iacocca’s narrow definition of management, all entrepreneurs eventually recognize that motivating other people is essential to success. And the job of being...
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5 Ways to Foster Team Culture on a Startup Budget
Kelly Lovell Contributor A strong team culture is an integral part of successful ventures. A motivated team can translate into better work productivity, increased product quality, enhanced customer support and overall office spirit. Benefits...
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13 Employee Management Systems for Your Growing Business
As much as you might want to hold one-on-one meetings with each employee at your company, at a certain point, those meetings become unrealistic. That’s why we asked 13 entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following...
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Hiring Overqualified Employees Might Be Good for Your Business
By Chad Brooks Despite common beliefs, hiring overqualified employees isn't always harmful to your business, new research suggests. Although it has long been accepted that hiring overqualified employees is detrimental to an organization, new...
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Biggest Customer Service Complaints: Do These Sound Familiar?
by Rieva Lesonsky What are customers’ most common and biggest gripes about customer service? Consumer Reports National Research Center conducted a survey to find out. Consumers were asked about their experiences with customer service in the...
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7 Helpful Tips for Managing Older Employees
By Brittney Helmrich Age may be just a number, but if you find yourself in a leadership position where you're managing employees who are older — and potentially more experienced — than you, your job can feel pretty tricky at times. You've...
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How Well Do You Know Your Employees?
By Chad Brooks There is a good chance you don't know your employees as well as you think you do, especially when it comes to the perks they crave, new research finds. Employers and employees have different views on which benefits are most...
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For Managers, Future Success Will Depend on Soft Skills
By Chad Brooks While frontline workers have long faced the prospect of machines replacing their jobs, managers are now being forced to confront the same possibility. With intelligent machines and cognitive computing now capable of handling more...
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10 Mistakes New Managers Make
Jim Schreier During a seven year stint providing training in the entertainment industry, one of the challenges was extremely high turnover. Inexperienced employees, with only a few weeks of experience, were promoted to supervisory...
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6 Ways to Attract and Retain a Dynamic Millennial Team
Peter Voogd Contributor Millennials are poised to drive the future of business. The 53.5 million-strong millennial workforce has risen rapidly and surpassed Generation X to represent the largest share of the American workforce. Millennials offer...
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How To Manage Without Being Mean (Is It Possible To Not Be Pushy?)
Kim Eisenberg Think about the worst boss you ever had. Remember what it felt like to go to work every day, knowing you had to report to someone who didn’t value your contributions and didn’t respect you as a person. Now, think about the...
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Changing of the Guard: How to Develop a Solid Succession Plan
By Chad Brooks To remain successful for multiple generations, it's critical that family businesses have a solid succession plan in place. For a smooth leadership transition that allows for continued growth and innovation, family businesses need...
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4 Rules to Avoid the Game of Telephone When Leading a Virtual Team
Jeff Boss In kindergarten, there was the game of telephone -- which may have happened in high school for some. A message was sent from the leader and shared quietly from one person to another with the goal that the last message...
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Building a Better Company Culture in 5 Steps
Sarah Haselkorn Contributor There are so many things mistaken for good company “culture” these days. Businesses are celebrated for allowing employees to come to work in sweats and for doling out free lunches. But that all-you-can-eat organic...
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How Does Company Culture Actually Lead to Success?
Jayson DeMers Contributor The importance of "company culture" is getting a lot of attention these days, especially in the startup world. Tech giants like Google have made a name for themselves by offering unique, sometimes luxurious benefits to...
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8 Clumsy Mistakes to Avoid During the Hiring Process
Heather R. Huhman Contributor Every new hire counts. But when employers fail to implement a thoughtful hiring process, they can make some costly mistakes. In a 2013 study by CareerBuilder, 27 percent of U.S. employers surveyed...
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4 Communication Mistakes Companies Make When Interviewing
Andre Lavoie Contributor It’s common for job candidates to be anxious during the interview process. The pressure of having the perfect resume and giving the best answer to each question can get to even the most confident job seeker. But maybe...
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Unhealthy Culture? Now, What?
Marty Fukuda Contributor Sustained business success doesn't happen in the absence of an outstanding culture. Can a company achieve short-term wins without one? Yes. In fact, such wins might even mask the fact that your office culture calls for...
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To Attract and Retain Talent Focus on Your 'Why'
Greg Monaco Contributor You’re likely already familiar with Simon Sinek’s branding concept that he introduces as “the world’s simplest idea,” or The Golden Circle. While you may have embraced this concept on some level in developing...
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The 4 Things Employees Want Most From a Job Cost Nothing
Jeff Boss Contributor Attaining, training and retaining top talent isn’t easy, especially in today’s information age when immediate feedback and an over-stimulation (in the electronic sense) lead the way. Convincing a new prospect requires...
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What Does Fast Track Hiring Mean For Candidates?
Jim Schreier Some organizations, attempting to deal with shortages of candidates and much needed skills, are implementing “fast track” hiring. From my perspective, it’s come about 15 years too late. It has been needed for a long...
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4 Ways to Give Your Customers Exactly What They Want
Dan S. Kennedy Contributor What I’m about to describe is enormously rewarding and admittedly difficult, but finding the “Good Enough Spot” (GE Spot) is essential if you really want your business to succeed. Here's how you can use each of...
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Change Management Is Bigger Than Leadership
by Gregory Shea and Cassie Solomon If an organization needs to undergo significant change, that’s a leadership issue, right? Old dogs will learn new tricks when the lead dog — or ape, or penguin, depending on the management fable of the...
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Managing Risk with Your Innovation Portfolio
By: Langdon Morris Probably the single greatest threat to most small businesses is “concentration risk,” also known as “keeping all your eggs in one basket.” In this chapter excerpt of of The Innovation Formula Langdon Morris discusses...
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New Managers: The Truth About Getting Respect
Tamara Murray At age 28, I was promoted to vice president at a PR firm. Shortly after, I was tasked with closing our staff retreat with a talk. It was a tough task because it’d been a tough year. People were weary. Related: How To Manage...
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Small Business Disaster Survival Guide: Get Your Insurance Claims Covered
More than a year after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast, homeowners and businesses are still in the process of rebuilding and recovering from the storm’s damage. Unfortunately, many of those affected by Sandy have found it’s...
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The 8 Delegation Myths Of The Office
Andy Robinson Managers may come up with dozens of reasons as to why they shouldn’t delegate a specific project – or at all – to their team members. Here are the eight myths about delegation: 1. I don’t delegate because my team can’t...
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Are You Afraid of Your Employees Leaving?
by Shubhomita Bose Small businesses are desperate to retain their employees and, as the popular adage goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. Many small businesses are devising creative ways to combat attrition because they are...
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4 Simple Ways to Make a New Hire Feel Welcome
Matt Straz Contributor Picture a new hire walking into an unfamiliar place full of people they don’t know with only an office map and a heavy handbook for guidance. They feel nervous, isolated and lost. They’re not sure how to act or who to...
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