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What Twitter groups can teach you about your organization
Michael J. Berens Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIf someone asked how your company is organized, what would you say? Chances are you would pull out your company's org chart and describe its various divisions and departments. But org charts only depict lines of formal authority.
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Hire more effectively through language testing
Jon Jilani Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhether job candidates intentionally exaggerate their language skills or they simply define "fluency" differently than the hiring manager would, it is hard to compare and contrast their abilities without any kind of standard measure.
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10 key hourly employee prescreening questions
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementOnce you have a stack of applications for a job opening, it's best to develop a list of preliminary, prescreening questions to ask promising applicants at the earliest possible stage in your hiring process.
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How do you define success?
C. Fredrick Crum Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhen I ask leaders, "How do you define success?" I often get asked, "Are you referring to my professional life, personal life or for this organization?" I often respond asking by this rhetorical question, "How many lives do you have?" Then I let them ponder my question for a few moments.
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The 3 P’s of employee terminations
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe vast majority of employment-related lawsuits follow the termination of an employee. Employers can minimize their legal liability by considering the “three P's” of employee terminations: people, procedures and paperwork.
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Is pharmaceutical biotech investment at risk?
Mike Wokasch Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementHigh profitability, strong cash positions, large global healthcare market opportunities, reliable dividends, and perceived security and stability have provided Big Pharma Biotech investors a solid basis for investment rationale. On the other hand, increasing cost of R & D, prolonged time to market, pricing pressures, marketing constraints, and regulatory uncertainty and challenges are now eroding investor confidence and interest.
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How to best leverage advisors for your business: Part I
David B. Mandell, JD, MBA Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementMost people realize that success creates complexity. What top practice owners and managers have realized is that the management of complexity and leverage is not the job of a traffic cop. As a practice grows, the number of complicated, technical risks that the practice faces also grows exponentially.
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7 steps to hiring great hourly employees
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementMost employers don't take a systematic approach to hiring, especially when it comes to hourly employees. They just post an ad on their website or a job board, collect applications, interview a few people and choose one. Unfortunately, this no-system, easy-hire approach is self-defeating.
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Should Comcast and Facebook be the gatekeepers of our content?
Liz Murphy CommunicationsComcast and Facebook may seem quite different from each other — the former is the traditional faceless corporation, and the latter is a young, fun start-up that prides itself on social interaction and innovation. In reality, they are two sides of the same coin.
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Is your mobile workforce exposing you to unseen risks?
Paul Starkman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementBring-your-own-device to work has fast become a popular trend. But it has become clear that BYOD also comes with many business risks that require further review, evaluation and action to reduce growing concerns with security, compliance and privacy issues.
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