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Robbie Hardy, Author, UPSETTING THE TABLE: Women Mentoring Women. It’s still dark outside. You can’t sleep and you’re staring at your desktop wondering “how did this happen?” How did this project, or product, go so wrong? It is over budget, behind schedule, and the scope has spiraled beyond your imagination. What went wrong? Who dropped […]
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Conquerors tend not to enjoy a laudable place in the history books, but they do offer lessons in how to get more without settling for less. Pilots refer to PNR—the point of no return. This technical term in air navigation refers to the point in a flight at which, due to fuel consumption, a plane
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Herb Carver, Founder & President, Point Above Consulting Talent is a major differentiator in today’s business environment – it’s key to business outcomes, revenue, profitability, innovation, productivity, customer loyalty and quality. Unfortunately, convincing talented employees that your company is the best one for them can be a challenge. Lately, the stakes are getting higher. Firmly
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Kristen Gramigna, CMO, BluePay You may be a small business, but customers expect you to have the same capacity as larger companies when it comes to technology, service and overall experience. Here are four common mistakes businesses make online, and how to avoid them. Clunky user experiences. Slightly more than a year has passed since
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M. Tamra Chandler, CEO & Co-founder, PeopleFirm There is a revolution coming. Within the next decade, virtually all organizations of note will have swapped out their old-school, ineffective performance management programs for something far better suited to today’s chaotic, multi-generational, fast-changing business world. The vanguard is already shifting, with The Gap, Netflix, GE, and Adobe all tweaking
What would it look like if you had better visibility into your corporate travel expenses? What if you had the right technology that integrated booking, authorizations, and payments; and then that technology streamlined your processes? What if your business travelers were happy to follow the corporate travel policy? For many lightly managed travel programs, that
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John F. Dowling Barron’s (May 16, 2016) has reported that Macy’s stock price has slipped 15%, Kohl’s is down double digits and even Nordstrom was down almost 9%. However, consumer spending was up, especially online sales. Does this spell the end for brick and mortar stores? Hardly! When was the last time you enjoyed an
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Robert H. Miles, Author, BIG Ideas to BIG Results: Leading Corporate Transformation in a Disruptive World No transformation challenge is greater than the one confronting you as a new CEO when you assume the mantel of executive leadership. Yet most CEOs only get one chance in their long careers to get this right. From the moment
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Joe Carson, Director at Thycotic A main concern for CEOs is knowing business is running smoothly. While sales and operations are top of mind, the security of the company needs the same awareness and care. While juggling many business functions, CEOs just don’t have the time to worry about small intricacies. New security breaches like
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Martine Liautaud, Author, Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices from Companies That Help Women Leaders Succeed Diversity is not a fashionable fancy that helps filling up a few pages in the Annual Report. Diversity is a true and efficient response to the challenge of growth, inside and outside the corporate world. Women are the force that
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