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Clark Conine

Leadership and career
March 31, 2017

Be More Funny, Make More Money

Want to make your company a better place to work? Understanding the benefits of using humor appropriately is the first step, actualizing this knowledge the second. Here are some ways humor can help your organization become a place that the best people can do their best work — and have…
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Leadership and career
March 29, 2017

How to Manage a Virtual Workforce (or How to Herd Cats)

Business leaders and employers interested in building a virtual workforce are in good company. According to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, virtual team management is a skill among the top workplace trends for 2016. And Global Workplace Analytics, a research company devoted to helping organizations understand emerging workplace strategies, finds…
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Compliance
March 24, 2017

Talking with Your Feet

Chief compliance officers are optimistic and committed to "doing the right thing." It is in their blood and may be at the core of their professional fabric. My guess is that there are far fewer CCOs who like to push the envelope than their legal counterparts. Some lawyers are capable…
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Leadership and career
March 20, 2017

Positioning Your Business as an Early Mover

An “early mover” is a firm that quickly recognizes a unique opportunity or risk in the marketplace and uses that knowledge to evaluate its options either before anyone else or along with other firms that likewise recognize the significance of what’s developing. Early movers have the advantage of time, with…
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Engaged Employee
Leadership and career
March 3, 2017

5 Pillars of Successful Employee Engagement

As the job market continues to gradually improve, employers are being held by their staff to new standards for positive and engaging workplace experiences. Gone are the days where workers held on to their jobs for dear life. Instead, employees are constantly on the lookout for better opportunities, better perks…
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Leadership and career
February 3, 2017

Are You Tough Enough to Cross the Rubicon?

By: Linda Henman During the Roman republic, the river Rubicon marked the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the northeast and Italy proper to the south. The river distinguished not only the geographic boundaries for the province but also the military restrictions for governors and magistrates. Therefore, rulers required generals to disband…
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Leadership and career
February 1, 2017

How to Create a Social Responsibility Program that Helps Retain Millennial Employees

It's clear that millennials will have a huge impact on tomorrow's businesses. This generation represents $2.45 trillion in spending power, reports Adweek, and according to Omnicom Group's Cone Communications, 70 percent of them will spend more on brands that support causes they care about. Millennials want to take part in…
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Leadership and career
January 6, 2017

Don’t Let Employees Break Your Engagement

By: Linda Henman In virtually every industry, productivity ebbs and flows, depending on myriad factors. When we see these fluctuations, we rightly conclude that they have occurred because of an increase or decrease in employment engagement. We also hear countless suggestions for getting this right—for correcting the ebbs and banking…
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Leadership and career
January 4, 2017

How Mentors and Sponsors Help Women Succeed in Business

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says, "if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India." I spoke with Martine Liautaud, founder of the…
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Leadership and career
December 19, 2016

Get More Without Settling for Less

By: Linda Henman 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…
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