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StrategyDriven Podcasts Voted Best Business Podcasts on the Net

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The StrategyDriven family would like to thank you, our listeners, for making the StrategyDriven Podcast the best business podcast on the net according to Podcast Alley! In September, the StrategyDriven Podcast was ranked first among the over 2,950 business podcasts listed on Podcast Alley and the StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective Podcast second among all business podcasts. […]

Resource Management Best Practice 5 – Staggering Project Starts

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The spike in demand for consultants, services, and products around the first of the year (or in the government’s case the beginning of October) appears to be a natural part of the business cycle. The fact that there is an onrush in spending, however, suggests the existence of an artificial driver. Truth be told, it’s the time of year when many companies replenish their budgets and subsequently start or restart their projects – all at the same time. And while there may be a certain logic to this occurrence from a dollars and cents perspective, simultaneously launching so many projects challenges the organization from a human resource perspective, namely, that there are often not enough people within the organization to staff all of these projects at the same time.

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Expanding Uncertainty in the U.S. Financial Sector, part 4

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From the outset of the financial collapse of 2008, it was apparent that the troubles of large financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and AIG could and did profoundly impact all aspects of the American financial system. Given their sheer size, such firms represent a ‘systemic risk’ to the whole economy […]

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Leadership Inspirations – What Counts

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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity

Breaking Down Health Reform’s Grandfather Clause

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New Rules May Hamstring Employers’ Ability to Innovate Existing Plans… The grandfather clause is a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that seeks to keep a key promise made by the Obama administration: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” But interim final rules handed […]

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