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Do You Hide Your Inner Bruce Wayne? What masks do you wear at work? What would happen if you dropped them and let people see what's underneath? GE's Immelt: An Ever-Hotter Throne The pressure to lift the share price is building. But CEO Jeff Immelt's options are limited
HEADHUNTERS CONFIDENTIAL
How to Select an Executive Search Firm Conducting a search firm "shootout" is critical to realizing a substantial return on investment in management leadership
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
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Green Business Makes for Strange Bedfellows Unlikely partnerships, such as one between Greenpeace and McDonald's, are becoming the norm as special-interest groups become part of the business conversation on such key issues as climate change and water scarcity
LIZ RYAN: THE WORKPLACE
Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You It's tempting to hire people with personalities like yours, but the better move may be to find people with the strengths you lack
GLOBAL
Roche-Genentech: A Drug Powerhouse Given the biotech's promising pipeline, Roche's CEO may need to raise his $43.7 billion offer to buy out Genentech's minority investors
DIRECTORSHIP
• From Directorship
Fraud's Red Flags Ten signs your company may be fostering a corporate culture conducive to wrongdoing
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
A New Name for the Next Generation What to call the post-Y Generation? How about the Re-Gens? It works on a lot of levels: renew, rethink, re-generate, and, unfortunately, recession
THE BOARDROOM
When Your Company Outgrows Its Board The needs of an expanded organization differ from those of a startup. New CEOs often bristle at boards that micromanage rather than govern
STARTING OUT
Self-Assessment: Tell It Like It Is The benefits of—gasp!—being brutally honest about your strengths and flaws at performance-review time
VIEWPOINT
The Fireside Chat vs. the Podcast In today's troubled economy, government and corporations need to borrow FDR's playbook and truly connect with constituents through Web 2.0, say Peppercom's Steve Cody and Sam Ford
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
Let's Hear it for B Players In a tough economy, it's your B players—competent, steady performers far from the limelight—who deserve your attention
LIZ RYAN: THE WORKPLACE
Out-of-Town Interview Etiquette Should interviewees assume all their time belongs to the company they're traveling to talk with?
HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE
• From Harvard Business
Blogging: A New Approach to Exec Recruiting Yes, we tried the traditional approaches when looking for a CEO for Adaptive Path. But we realized that social networking was a better way to go
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