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I am always reminding my clients of the importance of keeping their boss happy. I tell them to develop positive, supportive relationships with their bosses, keep them well informed, anticipate their needs, and focus on the good points.
But this advice didn’t work for a recent client, whom I’ll call Claudia. A senior manager in a Spanish construction company, Claudia had been working with her current boss for 11 years. Each time her boss changed positions
Continue reading Stepping Out of Your Boss’ Shadow – Gill Corkindale – Harvard Business Review
In the 2009 film “Up in the Air,” Natalie Keener decides she can no longer stomach being part of a corporate firing squad and quits her firm. Her mentor, played by George Clooney, behaves as the magnanimous gent we all know him to be: he writes a glowing reference letter on her behalf, addressed simply “to whom it may concern.”
In the real world, getting a reference letter is far more difficult and often a source
Continue reading How to Ask for a Reference Letter – Harvard Business Review
We increasingly group the people in our firms into two classes: those who have knowledge and talent and, by implication, those who do not. This segmentation is misleading and damaging to firms in the long run.
Ask executives to identify the talent within their firm and many will focus on the top tiers of management. Often, they will include in this august group the “high potentials” being groomed for leadership roles. Sometimes, they will extend the
Continue reading Are All Employees Knowledge Workers? – Bloomberg.com
LOS ANGELES – A strong earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday swayed high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona, knocking out power and breaking pipes in some areas but causing no major damage.
The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was initially reported as a magnitude-6.9 quake. The updated
Continue reading 7.2 earthquake hits Baja California – Yahoo! News
Una estudiante canadiense descubrió en un archivo londinense lo que podría ser la única copia de la Declaración de Independencia de Haití que ha sobrevivido hasta nuestros días, indicó hoy el diario canadiense The Globe and Mail.
Julia Gaffield dio con el documento de ocho páginas titulado “Libertad o la muerte” mientras investigaba en los archivos nacionales británicos, en Londres. El texto, de fuerte contenido anticolonialista, fue ampliamente difundido tras la independencia de Haití en 1804.
Continue reading Encuentran Declaración de Independencia de Haití · ElNuevoDiario.com.ni
April 3 Bloomberg — The biggest increase in employment in three years makes it “pretty clear” the deepest U.S. recession since the 1930s has ended, said the head of
the group charged with making the call. Payrolls rose by 162,000 workers last month, the third gain in the past five months and the most since March 2007, figures from the Labor Department showed yesterday in Washington.
“I personally put lots of emphasis on employment,” Robert Hall, who
Continue reading US Recession Over, says NBER’s Hall – Bloomberg.com
Ricky Martin came out on his website Tuesday.
The singer, whose sexuality was the source of much speculation in his “Vida Loca” heyday, posted a long statement that ended with, “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”
Martin welcomed twin sons via a surrogate in 2008 and has largely stepped away from the limelight to be a dad….via Ricky Martin Comes Out: “I’m
Continue reading Ricky Martin Comes Out: “I’m A Fortunate Homosexual Man”
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