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Aug 03, 2015 Yes, Your Résumé Needs a Summary By Jane Heifetz And it needs to capture a recruiter's attention in six seconds.

Entrepreneurship Assessment: Identify Your Entrepreneurial Personality Type by Linda Rottenberg Are you more like Jeff Bezos or Arianna Huffington? Developing employees Jon Stewart, Superboss by Sydney Finkelstein What lets some leaders cultivate so many talented people. Business writing Why I Write in PowerPoint by Nancy Duarte It makes documents easier to draft, organize, visualize, and share. Gender To Hold Women Back, Keep Treating Them Like Men by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox It's time to stop pretending everyone's the same. Economy Greece's Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity by Michael G. Jacobides The structural roots of this crisis are deeper than that. Security & privacy Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right by JM Olejarz A Q&A with an IBM security expert. Difficult conversations Stop Trying to Please Everyone by Ron Ashkenas, Matthew McCreight You can't say yes to everything all the time. Presentations Create a Conversation, Not a Presentation by John Coleman You and your audience should reach a conclusion together.

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