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- The Ethical Mind: A Challenge in Business?
- Is it more difficult for businesspeople to adhere to an ethical mind than for those in other professions? That's what a Harvard professor thinks, because he says it lacks the structure of other professions (he makes the point that it is not, strictly, a profession) and the only goal is...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- A Green Oath for Business Leaders
- Most medical professionals take an oath that charges them to consider the broader implications of their actions on society. Business leaders, of course, take no such oath. Until recently, it was commonly accepted that the only interests they served were those of shareholders and, to a lesser...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Closing The Sale
- This article says that selling is a wonderful profession. But oftentimes, because it is difficult to become successful in sales, it is also considered one of the toughest professions in the world. As a salesperson, you need to be thankful that making the sale is so difficult, because if it...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Marketing the Profession: Some Strategies That Work
- Marketing of a professional association plays two roles, firstly to make the public aware of the services offered by members of the organization and secondly to ensure a steady stream of qualified practitioners to provide those services. The surveying profession like several other professional endeavors, has seen aging demographics and...
- White papers 2005-04-16
- How to Market and Advertise a Medical, Dental or Legal Practice
- The real key to marketing a profession is developing and building relationships with clients and patients. It's impossible to cover all the marketing and advertising techniques for each profession in this paper. What this paper tries to do is give the reader some things to think about and adapt to...
- White papers
- Project Management: A Profession Or A Leadership Discipline? (Part 1)
- It is without a doubt that project managers - by nature of their role, responsibility and accountability - are considered to be front-line professionals. Their judgment, decision-making and directions are considered in good faith. Influence on fiduciary responsibilities and cross-functional personnel management further add to the critical role of project...
- White papers 2005-09-08
- Brave New World (Part 2)
- What of the professional organizations promoting project management as a discipline? An open question is the role that organizations like PMI would continue to play. Professions are regulated in specific, defined jurisdictions, usually at the state and provincial level. All other professions have regulatory bodies established within each jurisdiction. Each...
- White papers 2005-02-22
- Job Search Tactics: Learning The Lingo Of A Profession
- Every profession has its unique language. Typically a mixture of technical terms, acronyms, and ever-evolving slang, this is the talk that separates the insiders - the working pros - from everyone else outside the profession. When you're starting out, "Everyone else outside the profession" means you. Without knowing the language...
- White papers 2007-03-08
- Getting Your Resume Out Of The Retail Rut
- Retail sales is one of the most stressful, demanding professions around. But that conclusion isn't anything new to the millions of people who work in these jobs. They know that the hours are often long, the pay tends to be low, and the demands are many. A lot of retail...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Veterinarians With Disabilities: An International Issue
- The issue of people with disabilities entering and working in the veterinary profession is necessarily an international one rather than a localized concern restricted to a few of the so-called developed countries. The reasons for this will be explored later in this paper; at this stage, it is appropriate to...
- White papers 2004-05-12
- The Institutionalization of Training Programs in Project Management in Germany - A Typical Pattern of the Development of New Professions?
- The development of training programs in project management and its institutions in Germany shows an unambiguous trend: quantitatively there is an increase of offers and demands as well as qualitatively an increasing systematization of the offered programs. The development resembles processes of the professionalisation of "New professions". In reference to...
- White papers 2004-12-13
- Accounting Profession, Heal Thyself: A Matter of Survival
- There is a great need now for Company Accounting Oversight to step forward and show how serious we are about our own survival. The CPA profession has the potential to be the single most important player in the financial well being of the United States of America. On the other...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- A Crisis In Confidence
- In a monumental bill-signing ceremony that will have a profound effect on the CPA profession, the financial markets, and corporations worldwide, President Bush – flanked by U.S. Congressman Mike Oxley (R-OH) and Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) – signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 into law. It was the "shot heard...
- White papers 2003-05-14
- Details on Accounting Reform
- For over a century, our profession has enjoyed a reputation as America's most trusted financial advisors and guardians of the public trust. Yet, following Enron, WorldCom and other high profile business failures, our greatest asset-public confidence-as well as our long history of self-regulation, has been called into question. In the...
- White papers 2002-09-06
- Sustaining Supply Chain Applications
- The focus of supply chain management seems to be so popular that nearly any association dedicated to the advancement of their profession or industry is devoting time and money to the study of the issue, including the Purchasing and Supply Management profession. Initial observations find that firms interested in supply...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Project Management: Rapidly Emerging Profession
- This is accomplished by developing the objectives and measures around four themes or "perspectives": Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process and, Growth and Learning.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Ethical Challenges In The Engineering Professions
- Business ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right and what is wrong. It spells out the basic philosophy and priorities of an organization in concrete terms. It also contains the prohibitory actions at the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Professionalization in the Canadian Armed Forces: Bureaucracy, Inclusiveness and Independence
- The old saw is that the military is one of the two oldest professions in the world. Yet the study of the military as a profession has been largely overlooked in the sociological study of the professions. In this time of massive changes within the Canadian Armed Forces it is...
- White papers 2003-03-31
- Professional Groups and Subgroups in the Contemporary Military: Challenges and Opportunities
- Notwithstanding changes in the role of western armed forces following the ending of the Cold War, their status as a profession continues to reflect their special attributes: expertise, responsibility, corporateness, self-regulation, a code of ethics and standards of performance. As an example of the total fusion of organisation and profession,...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Industrial Workers Skeptical of Job Outlook
- Obama administration officials assured the swelling ranks of jobless industrial workers they will not be forgotten. But workers aren't convinced.
- Videos 2009-06-02
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