On this last day of the year, we at 1-Focus would like to pay tribute to all the individuals out there who are working to make this planet and healthy and safe place for everyone of us.  As a team supporter of Kiva we hope you will consider joining us.
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Roberta joined Sandy as a partner in 1-Focus International in the fall of 2006. In the past two years we have focused our vision and strategy around the philosophy and values that we both share.
We believe that when one is working from a clear vision, mission and values, whether as an individual or organization, [...]

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This came across my desk today and with good humor, I had to share it with you. The full post at Maggie’s Farm is by guest poster Bruce Kesler is Oy, Come All Ye Faithful: First Night of Hannukah (with Christmakah)   Maggie’s Farm describes itself as “a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New [...]

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I particularly enjoyed Dr. Maynard Brusman’s recent post on his Working Resources Blog: Executive Coaching for Stress Resiliency – Calm Leadership under Pressure.  
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 [firstname], in case you hadn’t noticed the Working Resources Blog has a list of some short survey you can take online that might be of interest to you.  Click Here.
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One of the [...]

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There is a great article on the psychology of fraud written from a business perspective from The UK Guardian yesterday.  It stresses the importance of understanding this issue because “organisations in the US are estimated to lose around 5 per cent of revenues to fraud of various kinds, while in the UK in the first [...]

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The Financial Times/ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Awards will take place at the Tate Modern gallery, London, on March 19 2009. The categories, which will be nominated by a panel of judges, are: Drivers for Change; Corporate Responsibility; Environment; Emerging Markets; Entrepeneurship and Lifetime Achievement.  A couple of things caught my eye besides the title which in [...]

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I don’t know what “older workers” means anymore. I suspect it is anyone (in the US at least) over 50 who “theoretically” can take early retirement. However, even before the current economic situation, I don’t know of many who actually stopped all work (i.e. nothing that paid).
Some older Americans want [...]

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MIT Sloan Management Review has chosen three recent leadership articles designed to help you address a number of common leadership challenges. In these challenging economic times, the effectiveness of leadership in corporations is increasingly becoming a source of concern. They claim that insights in this complimentary collection will help you make effective decisions about leadership recruitment, promotion [...]

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Kiva is an amazing program and one that 1-Focus International has chosen to support. At t his time of year when many of us give thanks, I want to recruit you to our new lending team, Sustaining Change, on Kiva. This non-profit website allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific [...]

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Here is a short, 3.5 minute video which explains a couple of key concepts involved in mergers and acquisitions. It is a good reminder that while we at 1-Focus point out that our primary work is in the area of mergers and acquisitions, the people that really hire us are more interested in consolidation. [...]

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