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The Importance of Messaging in War and Business

 

I was recently listening to retired 4-Star General Stanley McChrystal’s Memoir: My Share of the Task. Though he’s writing in the form of storytelling, there are many gems throughout the pages, specifically in regards to leadership lessons, business lessons and culture-building lessons.

During one interesting part, . . .

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October 07, 2019

Cassandra Gholston Co Founder & CEO of PartnerTap

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Cassandra is responsible for the strategic vision of PartnerTap. Prior to founding PartnerTap Cassandra spent her career in software sales as a top performer at market leading SaaS companies. During her tenure, she led her division in total annual recurring revenue and obtained consecutive . . .

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October 06, 2019

Exemption Rules for Executives

 

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Last week on our weekly newsletter, we talked about the upcoming changes to the salary compensation for overtime rules. I briefly talked about the rules to make someone exempt and today we will go over some of those rules. There are several rules that make someone exempt. We're going to go over those in the . . .

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October 02, 2019

“What’s Wrong with a Boy's Club, Anyways?”

Book Review & Discussion: 5 Reasons Men Should Read Emily Chang’s “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley”

Standing in line at a private tech company’s event featuring Emily Chang, Bloomberg Technology host and author of “Brotopia”, I saw a group of four men walk, pick up their signed copies of the book and get in line to enter. I was just thinking how great it was that there were so many men at a talk about women’s . . .

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September 30, 2019

A talk with Katia Paramonova

 

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Katia Paramonova is a MIT Entrepreneur making better partnerships through data-driven networks. Katia is an international catalyst and has experience working and living in five countries (US, Russia, Switzerland, India and Ghana) and three industries (energy, education, and robotics). She's a . . .

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September 29, 2019

New Overtime Salary Requirements

starts January 1, 2020

 

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For today's weekly cavnesHR newsletter, we are going to talk about a recent ruling by the Department of Labor, where they changed the salary requirements for overtime. So some background on this. For the past few years going back to President Obama's administration. The . . .

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September 25, 2019

Recognizing Minority Contributions

Last week an amazing thing happened! Audrey Gelman appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine. Not only is she the CEO of a successful startup, Wing, she manages an all-female executive team, AND she chose to appear on the cover visibly pregnant. It’s the first time in history that a visibly pregnant woman has appeared on the cover of any . . .

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September 24, 2019

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