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The pros outweigh the cons when true professionals focus on social progress. Social progress is the belief that people can (and desire to) improve the quality of their lives in terms of communal, economic, and political systems. Understanding social progress is about understanding people and their plans. Progress comes in…
Submitted by: Rose King Maybe it’s your best friend. Maybe it’s your boss. Maybe it’s someone you should seriously consider hiding from on Facebook. Whoever it is, there’s someone in your life who feels the need to speak in the most dated and obvious movie quotes available. It’s not…
Introduction All in a day’s work, they can go from meeting with a bank manager in her big, upscale office in the city to meeting with a tradesman in his small, village market stall. All within the course of a work week, they can help a private school administration…
This spotlight on Hip Hop Heels is part of my celebration of the movers and shakers that make progress happen. Hip Hop Heels is about progress as a rhythm for the mind and body. Also known as Hip-Hop High Heels, and Hip-Hop In Heels, this dance class experience is…
In the Finance & Strategy Practice of the Corporate Executive Board Company, I build and maintain relationships with executives at Fortune 500 companies to help them drive corporate performance by addressing 6 challenges: Assessing Key Performance Trends and Risks Organizing and Managing Critical Talent Benchmarking Performance and Plans Establishing Innovative…
Waste to Watts (W2W) is a company headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The company is managed by James Molini (Georgia Tech-B.S. Biomedical Engineering); Patrick Caputo (Georgia Tech–Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering); Chris Hamman (Duke University–M.S. Engineering Management/WPI–M.S. Electrical Engineering); and David Keith (MIT-Ph.D. ‘12 in Technology, Management, and…
Africa is the cradle of civilization. According to the Oracle Education Foundation, ThinkQuest, the earliest known evidence in the world of the existence of humans comes from Africa. Lucy, the fossilized partial skeleton of a 3 1/2 -foot-tall adult of an ape-like species, was discovered in 1974 in northeastern…
52 Reasons to Invest in Africa (That Everyday People Can Understand) _________________ Bull market… Bear market… or maybe “Lion market”? Why should realizing a return on investment be a game of Chicken? Bull market and bear market are both shorthand ways to describe market trends. “Bull” refers to investor confidence…
Video Marketing: Sharpen Your Image and Competitive Edge… _________________ “How do I plan to be profitable this month… this quarter… this year?” That is the money question, literally, for many executives and business owners. For similar types of firms that are competing for the same type of clients, profitability comes…
The term intellectual capital collectively refers to all the intangible resources that determine the value and the competitiveness of a business beyond its physical and financial assets. (See Thomas A. Stewart (1997) “Intellectual Capital – The New Wealth of Organizations; see also Karl Erik Sveiby (1997) “The Intangible Asset Monitor”, J. of Human Resource…