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Scott Adams – Harvard Business Review
My most basic belief about management is that it’s people flailing around and hoping that something lucky happens that makes them look as if they did a great job. And most of my experiences affirm that...
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Is Business Prepared for A Three-Generation Workforce? | Disruptive...
Retirement looks a lot like work today. Studies, surveys and individual behaviors indicate that the next wave of retirees will be reporting for work longer than they or their employers may have...
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Affordable Care Act: Your Delays and Deadlines Update | 2013-09-18 |...
Affordable Care Act: Your Delays and Deadlines Update | 2013-09-18 | Workforce.com.
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Google Hummingbird: Are You Still Playing Russian Roulette with Google? –...
However, the funny bit about our endless quest to know how Google ranks pages is that the truth has always been right in front of us: do the hard work of knowing your customer inside and out, establish...
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Transamerica Laying Off 60 in Cedar Rapids, 140 Nationwide – TheGazette
Tucker said some of the work currently performed by Transamerica employees will be outsourced to contractors. via Transamerica laying off 60 in Cedar Rapids, 140 nationwide | TheGazette.
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MetLife To Cut 117 Workers In Bloomfield – Courant.com
The layoffs are part of a plan MetLife acknowledged for the first time publicly in March. At the time, MetLife said it will cut 650 workers in Bloomfield, leaving 1,300 at the site, over a three year...
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MIB Group – Life Index October 2013
Life insurance application activity showed declines across all three age groups in October; ages 0-44 off -9.8%, ages 45-59 off -9.7%, and ages 60+ off -9.5%. Year-to-date, life insurance application...
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Blue Bunny to Lay Off 58 workers – The Des Moines Register |...
The cut comes at a time when Iowa also is being buffeted by big layoffs at Wells Fargo & Co. and the former Aviva USA insurance company, now known as Athene. The Iowa unemployment rate increased to...
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READ THIS NOW – Writing Wednesdays: “Poof Goes the Middle Class”
People are becoming entrepreneurs. The mind-set of the employee is vanishing like the factory where it was born. It has to. We’ll all die if we wait for some force outside ourselves—business or...
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US Hospitals Look to Provide Insurance for Poor Patients – FT.com
US hospitals are exploring ways to buy “Obamacare” insurance plans for their sickest and poorest patients as they strain under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in uncompensated costs from the...
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Companies Take Steps to Curb Worker Burnout – News OK
One strategy Goldman Sachs has been trying is to make people feel less at risk in their jobs. That\’s not easy in most companies, much less so in investment banking. To keep junior analysts from...
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‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams: How to Fail Your Way to Success – US News and...
Your best bet is to have a system for acquiring new and complementary skills over your lifetime while always looking for better opportunities. It’s analogous to diversifying your investments. via...
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Never Say Goodbye to a Great Employee
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: So-called "boomerang" employees — those who leave and then return — will become an increasingly valuable source of talent over the years...
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Top 10 Free Medical Apps – Physician’s Weekly
Top 10 Free Medical Apps | Physician’s Weekly. I have one of the ten apps listed on my phone. At my age I consider this to be a little victory.
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The Degree Is Doomed
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: The credential — the degree or certificate — has long been the quintessential value proposition of higher education. Americans have embraced...
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The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of...
The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading | The National Law Review. Expert networks are different than expert witness listings. I am not a member...
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The Dangerous Rise of "Entrepreneurship Porn"
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: Sir Richard Branson has proclaimed 2014 “The Year of the Entrepreneur.” Breathless coverage abounds: sexy stories of the young and old who...
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Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: Smartphones are enormously valuable for helping people to fit work activity into times and places outside of the office. Now that workers are...
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CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST- Administrators and Part-Timers: Changes in U.S. Higher...
I’ll only add that institutions are defined by their people. As the full-time and tenured faculty become a smaller share of the employees of the institution and the professional administrators become a...
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Basecamp’s Strategy Offers a Useful Reminder: Less Is More
Harvard Business Review:What you choose to not do is as important as what you choose to do. Originally posted on HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: Unless you follow tech companies, you might...
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