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Culture vs. Control

The Performance Improvement Blog

The dust has settled a bit on the working-from-home issue which was stirred up about a month ago when Yahoo's 11,500 employees received an email from the HR department putting an end to “work-from-home arrangements” throughout the company. Often, employees are not clear about what is expected of them.

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Hire the ‘loud’?

Clark Quinn

The recent story of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, struck me as an interesting case. Both of these would be good outcomes for Yahoo. Of course, I have no idea whether that will actually happen. And, as I’ve said before , conversations are the engine of business. You need to be interacting to be advancing.

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Use Quora to Market Your Online Course

LearnDash

You know, stuff like: Validate your course idea first. Quora is the modern day Yahoo Answers. The quality of these answers far exceeds that of Yahoo Answers though, and the qualifications of those offering advice can be quite impressive. Content marketing is king. Facebook ads are great for quick results.

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10 resources I enjoyed in February 2013

Jane Hart

One of the hot topics on the Web over the last week or so has been Marissa Meyer’s decision to terminate working at home for Yahoo employees. Thanks to an internal memo leaked to Kara Swisher by a Yahoo employee, we have insight into a recent decision by their C-Suite. “Edicts like the one from the Head of Yahoo!

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How to Keep Business Leaders From Leaving

KnowledgeCity

While it might seem like it’s going against the idea of ensuring CEOs and executives aren’t overworked, keeping them challenged is another critical consideration. It’s also a good idea to be mindful of employee retention strategies. The likes of Meta, Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer left as CEO of Yahoo!

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Top Game Lists from Others: Best and Worst

Kapp Notes

So, from the video game perspective, here are some ideas. Over at a Yahoo! So its the time of year to talk about best and worst. Here is the list of top ten most disappointing games of 2010 found at Wired. site check out 5 Worst Video Games of 2010. Here is a list of top ten video game awards from msnbc. Here is a list from CNBC.

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6 great tools to help determine the title of your next course

Superb Learning

A good course title can help improve brand recognition, set you apart from the competition and also give people a general idea of what your course is about. This means it can harvest keyword ideas from not just Google, but also YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, Answers.com and many other popular websites. Ubersuggest.