Core Competencies

Does Your Career Zig or Zag?

Caroline Dowd-Higgins | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Leadership, Career Development, Change, Unemployment, Values, Core Competencies, Employment, Innovation, Zig Zag, Workplace Flexibility, Transferable Skills, Business News
Caroline Dowd-Higgins

It used to be that having short stints at multiple companies was a red flag. These candidates can now market themselves as desirable hires if they don't present as an immediate flight risk.

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Redefining Greatness (It's Complicated)

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Core Competencies, Strengths Movement, Nuance, Strengths, George Bush, Walt Whitman, Gallup, Greatness, Healthy Living News
Tony Schwartz

Greatness demands both decisiveness and flexibility, courage and prudence, strength and vulnerability, action and introspection. The true measure of greatness is our capacity to navigate between varying opposites.

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Want Balance? Be the Boss

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Make Mine a Million, Small Business, Children, Nanny, Economy, Work/Life Balance, Business, Self-Employment, Outsourcing, Mompreneurs, Core Competencies, Health Insurance, Construction, Revenues, Moms, Entrepreneurship, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Working Moms, Healthy Living News
Laura Vanderkam

Many women who truly want to focus on nurturing their families, and making the most of their careers realize that they're better off going it alone.

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On Not Doing Dishes: The Rise of the Core Competency Mom

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gary Hamel, Dishes, Working Mothers, Core Competencies, Careers, C.K. Prahalad, Moms, Harvard Business Review, Dixie, Healthy Living News
Laura Vanderkam

Like corporations focused on their essential functions, modern moms are stripping out most chores that can be outsourced or ignore, changing the way our economy and our families function.

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