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Location:: Beacon, NY
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Google Meter breaks down your email habits

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As email continues to be the dominant form of digital communication within businesses, Google has rolled out a set of analysis tools that will help users better understand their inbox.

Announced within the Official Gmail Blog earlier today, the development team behind Gmail has launched an analytics tool for email called Google Meter. Providing a variety of statistics for Gmail users, the tool analyzes email activity on a specific account on the first of each month. Google Meter provides

This Is The Biggest Reason Talented Young Employees Quit Their Jobs

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“Hirers often complain that their young workers jump ship quickly. A study published this summer in the Harvard Business Review confirmed that young top performers—the workers that organizations would most like to stick around—are leaving in droves.Researchers found that high achievers, 30 years old on average with great school and work credentials, are leaving their employers after an average of 28 months. Furthermore, three-quarters of them admit to sending out resumes, contacting search firms and interviewing for jobs at least once a year during their first employment. And 95 percent said they regularly watch for potential employers.Multiple

Your Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem

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When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully.I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation, most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups. Ronn is thoughtful, widely read, a seasoned practitioner, and a great communicator.Ronn's basic idea was that four decades of academic research and two decades of conscious implementation of that work have provided robust, actionable answers to many pressing innovation questions.