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How to Best Manage Telecommuters

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer put the kabosh on work-from-home deals and ordered everyone to return to the office so they could be more collaborative and innovative. The problem is that many companies, Yahoo included, manage telecommuters exactly the same as they would manage people in the office. With more than 3.3 of the U.S.

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Why the Lone Wolf Mentality Won't Work Anymore

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Sales teams have an “eat what you kill” mentality, which means they don’t collaborate or brainstorm, but instead zealously guard their territory and are rewarded individually for their successes, says Tim Sanders, former Yahoo! Chief solutions officer and cofounder of Deeper Media, Inc., a research consultancy.

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How to Scale Up Excellence

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Companies like Facebook and Google have added thousands of employees successfully without sacrificing excellence, while Starbucks and Yahoo faltered as they focused more on creating a big footprint instead of ensuring the right mindset permeates an organization.

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Are You Being Naive -- and Just Plain Stupid -- About Your Online Reputation?

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So, I'm going to share some really good advice and comments from online reputation management folks that I couldn't fit in my column: * "Search for your name in Google, Yahoo! Google covers most of the Web, but MSN and Yahoo! and MSN right away. may pick up web pages that Google missed or ignored.) del.icio.us.

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Why Having Talent Isn't Always Enough

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Reports were that Yahoo employees working from home were spending much of their time and energies launching their own enterprises. Give-and-take in the workplace is expected, and if you don’t want to accept comments that others have to offer, go live in a cave somewhere. Running a sideline on company time.

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Why poor spelling and grammar hurt your career

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The authors provide a number of good resources to ensure that you get it right, including The Associated Press Stylebook and The Yahoo! It's not OK to guess about the proper name of an organization or whether a word should be capitalized. Style Guide. But those who aren't comfortable with writing shouldn't panic.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Treating Job Candidates Badly: Why.

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“Some companies really have tunnel vision, and they’re not considering that the job candidate isn’t just a job candidate, but also a customer and an influencer,” says Libby Sartain, a human resources adviser who has also worked for Southwest Airlines and Yahoo! They’re not thinking about how a bad candidate experience sticks with you.

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