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HR Management Article: What is the Return On Investment of the Executive MBA?

This is an interesting article relating financial support from corporates to Executive MBAs. Is there a lack of return on ivestment? Article by Suffolk University Executive MBA director Kristin Polito

13 Strategies for Advancing Your Career

from Sun Tzu’s Art of War
By Gary Gagliardi

Why do most people never find a satisfying rewarding career? Because they never learn how competition in the job market works. Success in a career demands a long-tern strategy, but unfortunately, most Americans know little of either developing a career strategy or executing it. 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote a book called The Art of War that outlined those rules to creating a winning strategy. Though written in the context of war, those same rules can be easily applied to any competitive endeavor. In our book, Sun Tzu The Art of War Plus The Art of Career Building, we adapted the complete text of Sun Tzu’s philosophy directly to advancing your career. Here are a few highlights:

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The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) is a treatise on statecraft and economic policy which identifies its author by the names Kautilya[1] and Viṣṇugupta,[2] who are traditionally identified with the Mauryan minister Cāṇakya.[3]

The Sun Tzu Strategy Site

Who Is Sun Tzu?
SUN TZU QUOTE OF THE WEEK
They do not engage an enemy advancing with well-ordered banners nor one whose formations are in impressive array...Therefore, the art of employing troops is that when the enemy occupies high ground, do not confront him' with his back resting on hills, do not oppose him.

Mark McNeilly. Author & Speaker

Mark McNeilly. Author, Speaker, ConsultantMark is the author of two books on Sun Tzu's Art of War, both published by Oxford University Press. Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers helps business people apply Sun Tzu's strategic philosophy to business problems. With this book now in its sixth printing and translated into five different languages Mark is one of the world's most widely read authors on the application of Sun Tzu's principles in business. Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare was created for those who have an interest in how Sun Tzu's ideas have been applied in military history and current warfare.

Project South Asia

Area Development Online: "Still, France and the UK have the most well-established auto clusters in Western Europe. France is home to a number of automotive suppliers and fuel cell research facilities. This is where PSA Peugeot Citroen produces 900,000 vehicles a year. The UK is especially strong in automotive assembly plants, with Honda and Press Steel Fisher manufacturing car bodies there. Experts say Western Europe can rebound as countries seek to improve productivity."