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A playbook for the board by Bill McNabb, Ram Charan and Dennis Carey Index funds and other long-term investors are no longer a silent majority of shareholders. They have become a vocal constituency, ...

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Person-centered therapy, also known as Rogerian therapy or client-based therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, ...

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