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Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life: Life's a zero-sum game, right? The more you strive to win in one dimension (e.g., your work), the more the other three dimensions (your ...; Tags: Leadership, Stewart D. Friedman, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Self-Improvement, Time-Management, Goal-Setting, Productivity, Employee, Leader, Domain, Friedman, Management
Managing Oneself: We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen ...; Tags: Strength, Reflective Best Self, Professional Development, Career, Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Productivity, Personal Productivity, Management, Self-Help
Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?: How many of us struggle harder every day to uphold obligations to our bosses, families, and communities--even as the quality of our lives erodes? ...; Tags: Commitment, Recruitment & Selection, Research & Development, Business Structures, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Donald N. Sull, Dominic Houlder, Professional Development, Productivity, Commitments
Ace Your Job Interview: Anxious about an upcoming meeting with a potential employer? Our top downloaded articles on job interview skills are here to help.; Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, BNET Staff, career, hiring, interview, Top 5
How to Present Like Steve Jobs: Apple's CEO is the most charismatic pitchman in business today. Learn how to apply his secrets to your next presentation.; Tags: Steve Jobs, Phone, Product, Apple Inc., Presentation, Nothing, Telecom & Utilities, Carmine Gallo, Presentations, Apple, Fire Them Up, Crash Course
How to Survive Dinner with a Wine-Snob Boss: Having the wine-snob boss over for a fancy dinner? Here's a BNET survival guide for wannabe wine geeks.; Tags: Michael Mattis, wine, business dinner, Crash Course
How to Win at Office Politics: Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn't have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging ...; Tags: Job, Microsoft Office, Coworker, Colleague, Office Politic, Recruitment & Selection, Harassment, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Kelly Pate Dwyer, professional development, career, workplace, Department, Goal, Customer, Game, Software, Strategy, Technique, Talent, Team, Alliance, Accounting, Marketing, Compensation, Teamwork, California Software, Administrator, Leadership, Coca-Cola Co., Partnership, Supervisor, MBA, Women, Network, Knowledge, Information Technology, HR Function, Benefit, E-mail, Tool, Toyota Motor Corp., McDonald's Corp., Crash Course
How to Take Parental Leave: Taking time off from work to care for a new child may be a federal right for many American workers, but doing it without ...; Tags: Job, Boss, Recruitment & Selection, Telecommuting, Workforce Management, human resources, workplace, benefits, parental leave, Family and Medical Leave Act, Recruitment &Amp, Selection, Crash Course
How to Upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista: Microsoft Windows Vista has arrived, and you're wondering if and when to upgrade. Before you take the plunge, do your homework to help make ...; Tags: Clean Install, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Business, clean, Operating systems, SOFTWARE, Crash Course
How to Sell an Idea: Got an idea that could kick your career into overdrive?; Tags: Professional Development, Team Management, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Career, Sales, Investment, Finance, Geoffrey James, selling, entrepreneur, managing up, new ideas, Mergers &Amp, Acquisitions, Crash Course
Rules of Innovation From a Wal-Mart Pro: A Wal-Mart manager shares four crucial steps for launching new projects within a big corporation.; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Ledlie, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Marketing Research, Retail, Finance, Management, Marketing, Georgia Flight, intrapreneur, corporate entrepreneur, wal-mart, innovation, business strategy
Great Intrapreneurs in Business History: These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee and ended up changing ...; Tags: Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Sony Playstation, Kutaragi, Myers, Games, Game Players, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Java, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jake Swearingen, Intrapreneurs, Intrapreneuership, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Corporate Entrepreneurship
How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories: Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies.; Tags: Team, Gateway Inc., Eastman Kodak Co., Idea, Venture, Jim Lynch, Team Management, Management, Georgia Flight, Intrapreneurs, Intrapreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Inkjet Printer, Lessons Learned, Weiner
How to Manage the Media: For too long, American CEOs have operated with a policy of benign neglect toward the media. But recent CEO downfalls and PR disasters prove ...; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Media, CEO, Tom Mattia, Financial Result, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, William Holstein, Corporate Strategy, Crash Course
How Star Women Build Portable Skills: A star performer in one company will shine in another, right? Wrong. When stars switch firms, their performance actually dims, along with their new ...; Tags: Women, Boris Groysberg, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession: In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book Who's Your City? matters to workers during a recession and how a ...; Tags: Florida, NorCal, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Paul Kaihla, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Richard Florida, Books, Creative Class, City, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions, Recession, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics
Who's Your City: Best Places to Live: In this exclusive adaptation of Richard Florida's new book Who's Your City?, Florida explains how to choose the ideal place to work and live, ...; Tags: Job, City, Professional Development, Salary, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Richard Florida, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Crash Course
Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions: These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to ...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Job, New York, Region, Finance, Sector, Real Estate, Entertainment, Chicago, Key, Recruitment & Selection, Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Florida, Who�s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Books, Creative Class, City, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions
Who's Your City?: What Is a Megaregion?: Forget the best cities to work in. Richard Florida envisions a world in which megaregions -- composed of several cities -- represent a new ...; Tags: City, Population, Globalization, Workforce Management, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Richard Florida, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Books, Creative Class, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions
Presentations: Wow �Em Like Steve Jobs: Want to give better presentations? Learn from the example of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the most charismatic pitchman in business today.; Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Solution, Phone, Product, Apple Inc., Motivation, Slide, Presentation, Images, Nothing, Telecom & Utilities, Carmine Gallo, Apple, Public Speaking, Presentations, Book Excerpt

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How to Present Like Steve Jobs41 votes
How to Survive Dinner with a Wine-Snob Boss33 votes
Wine Types: What They Are and Where They're From23 votes
How to Find the Best City to Work and Live22 votes
How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories18 votes

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