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Tuesday, October 6, 2009



Is Your Resume Presentable?

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Presentation is your first impression. Much like when you meet someone for the first time and you know that they're forming their first impression of you. Of course we always hope it will be a positive one and it is the same principle with your resume. The presentation of the document is the reader's first impression. You can either delight them and encourage them to learn more or you can turn ...

Berkeley Lab Engineer Tapped To Head U.S. Energy R&D Agency

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WASHINGTON — Roughly seven months after launching a new energy research agency, the Obama administration has nominated a top engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to head the office. Arun Majumdar, currently associate laboratory director at Berkeley Lab and a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, was nominated on Sept. 18 to head the Energy ...

Berkeley Lab Engineer Tapped To Head U.S. Energy R&D Agency

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IBM Corp. has cut nearly 10,000 jobs this year, according to reports, although Big Blue still refuses to fess up to most of the layoffs. The Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701, an IBM union, claims IBM has implemented 17 separate layoffs for a total of 9,308 jobs this year, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. That's been known for some time. Here's what is new: Big Blue is ...

Conducting Corporate Diplomacy by Michael D. Watkins

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The higher you rise in organizations the more you need to be able to practice the corporate equivalent of international diplomacy. Whether you are striving to transform your organization internally or working to shape the rules of the game with government officials externally, the essential challenge is the same: If you want to achieve your objectives, you need to learn how to effectively ...

Infectious Leadership

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What kind of infectious agent do you want to be? Infectious like humor or infectious like the plague? For good or ill the senior leadership of every organization is infectious. By this I mean that leaders' behaviors tend to be transmitted to their direct reports, who pass them on to the next level, and so on down through their organizations. Over time, they permeate the organization ...