Add To Your Edge
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Add to Your Edge
Author: Susan K. Maciak
language: en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date: 2014-04-14
Add to Your Edge: 12 Ways to Excel in the 21st Century To excel in the 21st Century, everyone needs a fresh, new competitive edge. Whether you’re the owner of a small, local company, CEO of a large corporation, seasoned employee or recent graduate launching a career, you may need to change your game. New rules now apply. Upsurges in technology, advances in communication and access to information have turned the business world upside down. Just to survive today, you need to do many things differently. Old practices no longer work. Everything from customer service to marketing, making decisions, or solving problems to getting an education or landing a good job, requires new strategies for the current playing field. Add to Your Edge could be your play book for changing your game to meet new demands of today. This practical guide to getting ahead gives you new direction in dozens of areas that lead you to 21st century success.
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