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Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough “brain power,” multinationals can’t succeed in these markets. Yet they’re approaching the war in the wrong way-bringing in expats and engaging in bidding wars for hotshot local “male” managers. The solution is hiding in plain sight: the millions of highly educated women surging into the labor markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the United Arab Emirates. Increasingly, these women boast better credentials, higher ambitions, and greater loyalty than their male peers.

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http://hbr.org/product/winning-the-war-for-talent-in-emerging-markets-why/an/13024-HBK-ENG

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The Death of Middle Management

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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In her latest book, The Shift, London Business School academic Linda Gratton proclaims the death of middle management. The book contends that while the role of management was held in higher esteem in the past, the modern manager is often a figure of parody, with sitcom programs like The Office tapping into this zeitgeist perspective.

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http://www.hrmtoday.com/leadership/the-death-of-middle-management/

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Death By Meeting

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Death By Meeting (2004) is the work of Patrick Lencioni, a business consulting guru with a number of top-selling books to his credit. Most of the book is a fable about a video game company with really good people and really bad meetings

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http://www.aleanjourney.com/2011/02/book-review-death-by-meeting.html

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The John Adair Lexicon of Leadership

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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Billed as “a practical blueprint for developing your own abilities as a leader”, this is a collection of six previous John Adair books on leadership stitched together to form a (reasonably) coherent one-stop resource for both students and practitioners. While some commentators question our obsession with prioritising leadership over management, Adair has no such qualms. He views the discovery of the role and effects of leadership as one of the wonders of civilisation . . .

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http://www.director.co.uk/MAGAZINE/2011/5_May/books-john-adair_64_09.html

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The Skinny On Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

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The Skinny On Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift, Jim Randel, 2010, ISBN 9780984139392.

Here is another in a series of books that attempts to boil down a large subject area into an easy-to-read format. Intended for busy people who want just the bullet points, this book looks at how to best manage your time.

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http://ezinearticles.com/?Review—The-Skinny-On-Time-Management&id=6239200

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A Tech Tool That Puts Employees and Customers to the Test

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

By DAVID H. FREEDMAN

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Everyone does online presentations of one sort or another today. But do you always question the people who are sitting through them to make sure they’re getting the message?

You might want to start, especially if you’re doing any sort of training or tutorials for employees or customers. Teachers, and those who study learning, have known for a long time that people are much more likely to process and retain information if they’re tested on it — and a well-known 2007 study at Washington University proved it. And testing gives trainers, teachers and marketers a chance to see what’s getting through to whom and to adjust accordingly on the fly.

Of course, you probably don’t have a professional educator on your staff to design effective test questions and immediately evaluate each response so that presentation-watchers can be matched instantly to the right follow-up material and questions. What you want is to have all that happen automatically. But how do you build that sort of interactive testing into a PowerPoint presentation or online tutorial?

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http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/a-tech-tool-that-puts-employees-and-customers-to-the-test/?ref=smallbusiness

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YOU’RE THE BOSS; The Pitfalls Of Hiring Friends

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

By BARBARA TAYLOR

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When business owners visit our firm to discuss the sale of their businesses, they are often accompanied by another person. Typically that person is a spouse, lawyer, accountant, partner with an equity stake or family member who works in the business. But every so often the other person is introduced as ‘a friend.’ At this point I hope for the best but prepare mentally for the worst.

I sometimes refer to these people as an F.O.B. (friend of the business). More often than not, the F.O.B. and the owner were friends in another life – high school, college, church or a stint with a previous employer. It usually takes a few probing questions to decipher the role of the F.O.B. in the organization

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDA1538F930A25756C0A9669D8B63&ref=management

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Conflict Research Consortium BOOK SUMMARY / Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Editor| Leave a comment

-  by John E. Tropman

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Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions offers a set of principles and instructions for managing successful, productive meetings. This book aims to enable the reader to lead effective, enjoyable meetings which produce lasting high quality decisions.

Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions will be of interest to those who wish to improve the quality and efficiency of meetings. This work is divided into twenty-one brief chapters, arranged in four parts, with an introduction and appendices. Tropman observed a number of “meeting masters,” and has distilled their various techniques and approaches into seven principles and fourteen commandments.

Part One describes seven general principles which, taken together, provide a model for successful meetings. Meetings should be seen as orchestra performances: cooperative ventures requiring preparation and a definite agenda. Agendas should be set based on the material to be covered. New business and reports should be avoided. Meetings should be proactive, and should seek to produce decisions which advance the interests of all stakeholders.

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http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/tropmaki.htm

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