Entries by First Sun Team

#Leadership: How the 10 Highest-Paid Women #CEOs Compare to Their Compare to Their Male Counterparts…The AP & #Executive Compensation Data Firm Equilar Found that, Overall, #Women CEOs Make More Than Male CEOs.

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This week, the Associated Press published a list of the 10 highest-paid chief executives in America, followed by a ranking of the 10 top-paid women CEOs. Unsurprisingly, the first list is all men, with the exception of Yahoo CEOMarissa Mayer, who took the No. 5 spot on that list and the No. 1 spot on […]

#Strategy: 3 Helpful Tips for Dealing With Vexing Chinese #Negotiating Tactics… Sun Tzu: The #Successful [negotiator] Waits Before Charging Headlong into Battle. He Shies Away From an Enemy’s Strength; He Spends his Time Observing /Cultivating Changes in the #Strategic Landscape.

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As a film producer and consultant who works extensively in China, I am often confronted with the vexing challenge of making deals with savvy Chinese negotiators. I have found the advice offered by Steven Dickinson, an attorney with the Seattle-based law firm Harris Moure, to be extremely helpful in confronting the business negotiating tactics that […]

Your #Career: Why A #Resume Should Be A Job Seeker’s Last Resort…If You’re Betting on a Resume to Get you #Hired, You’re Hobbling your #Job #Search Efforts

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“I haven’t used a resume to get a job in at least a decade,” a mid-career executive told me last week. He wasn’t bragging, but noting a fact. At his level, those seeking to recruit him weren’t interested in a stapled piece of paper listing bullet points with action verbs. They wanted to hear him […]

#Leadership: Workforce Planning: The War Room Of #HR…In the War for Top #Talent, #Workforce Planning is the War Room of HR.

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The “War Room” – where once battle strategies, and today business strategies, are formed, tactics devised, and actions monitored. By designating a War Room, a company recognizes that from time to time, it’s necessary to take a step back from the flurry of everyday activity and survey the scene from ten thousand feet. From a […]

Leadership: Shocker: 40% of Workers Now Have ‘Contingent’ Jobs, Says U.S. Government…U.S. General Accounting Office is a Startling Statistic: 40.4% of the U.S. #Workforce is now made up of Contingent Workers—That is, People who Don’t Have what We Traditionally Consider Secure #Jobs.

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Tucked away in the pages of a new report by the U.S. General Accounting Office is a startling statistic: 40.4% of the U.S. workforce is now made up of contingent workers—that is, people who don’t have what we traditionally consider secure jobs. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) There is currently a […]

Your #Career: How to Make a Great Impression during a Phone Interview…#Employers Tell me the Writing is too Casual & that Young Adults also Struggle During Skype & Phone #Interviews

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Hold it right there. Don’t snap a selfie or drop a clever hashtag.  While it’s true millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce, this is no time to celebrate. #iknowimabuzzkill Sorry, couldn’t help myself. After all, our generation loves to write in phrases, abbreviations and clever shorthand.  The style works great for Gchat […]

#Leadership: 20 Books to Read this Summer that will Make you Smarter about Business…Summer is the Perfect Time to Catch up on your Reading, & There are Plenty of Great #Business #Books to Add to your List.

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We’ve picked our favorite recently released and upcoming books that will help enrich your professional life. From the first in-depth biography of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to a neurological explanation of “eureka” moments, these books will make you smarter about business while you’re waiting in the airport or lying on the beach. ‘Elon Musk’ by Ashlee […]

#Leadership: The New Rules of #Work. How to Overthrow your #Boss & Burn your #Company to the Ground….The Old Rules No Longer Apply, So these 3 People are Inventing New

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Work as we have always known it is done. But that doesn’t mean you can stop working. In fact, it’s more than likely that you’re reading this as you take a short break from your job. Maybe it’s 11 p.m.; maybe it’s Saturday. Your work is never done, even though work is. While work as […]

#Leadership: The New Rules of Work. Meet the #Boss of the Future…The Power is Shifting, & What it Means to Be a Great Boss is Taking a Dramatic Turn

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We work in an ever-changing, hyperconnected, world-scattered workplace. As the way we work changes, so too will the boss’s role need to shift to meet those demands. Take, for example, the very makeup of the U.S. workforce. One in every three Americans is a freelancer of some sort, according to a 2014 survey by Freelancers […]

#Leadership: The 5 Things Successful Senior #Management #Job Seekers Do…At the #Senior Levels Jobs become Fewer & Competition Increases, so Adopting a Process that is Focused on Quality over Quantity can Make a Big Difference in the Outcome

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Many job candidates I see believe finding their next step on the #career ladder is a numbers game. They apply for as many appropriate, next-level-up positions as possible and figure the odds are they’ll wind up with something good—and if not good, at least acceptable. Although this strategy can work early  in one’s career as […]