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An original Post from Gregg Thompson
There was a time when only the most senior and the most junior organization leaders really made learning a priority. Senior leaders learned because they were responsible for crafting a competitive business strategy and junior leaders learned because they were seeking to earn their place in the organization. Today, learning [...]
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An original post from Jim Clemmer
Change is happening way too fast to predict and plan for an uncertain and unknown future. Building a quickly responsive and highly adaptive team and organizational culture is more critical than ever. The core of a built-to-change culture is an energized vision, values, and purpose/mission (it’s the hub of our [...]
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An original post by Gregg Thompson
You’ve done all the right things. You’ve provided crystal clear direction to your organization, rewarded courageous risk-taking, encouraged innovation, honored diversity, demanded personal accountability, put the customer first…but it all just went to hell in a hand basket. Your market just went south, a major product failed or your biggest [...]
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An original post from Max Garfinkle
In order to achieve the ideal of employees fully committed to the best interests of their firm, managers/leaders have to change their style of managing. No longer is OBEDIENCE to the boss a sufficient goal. The autocratic boss, who only wants his subordinates to do what they are told to [...]
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An original post from: Andy Nulman
Here’s what’s been driving me crazy lately:
The “Yahbot.”
The Yahbot is a creature that’s been infiltrating way too many of my meetings these days. The Yahbot is a stone-deaf, loudmouth pain in the (you know where).
The Yahbot, to better explain, is that time in a professional (or personal…it doesn’t discriminate) encounter [...]
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An original post from Chris Brogan
It’s so tricky. We get into something new (or we get told to get into something new) and we suddenly reduce it to a pattern. “I’m going on Twitter and I will tweet for 30 minutes about our products and services. I will write a blog post and I will [...]
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An original post from Jim Clemmer
I’ve written quite a lot about coaching as a central leadership task. The CLEMMER Group is getting ever deeper into developing and delivering customized coaching workshops, competency models, performance management systems, and the like. I have over 300 citations, quotations, and research papers filed under coaching in my research database. Here [...]
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An original post from Chris Brogan
Getting discouraged is easy. There are negative people all around us, and it’s hard to pick out which ones are being constructive and honest versus those who are being jerks. What I find interesting is just how easy it is to let their opinion scuttle my mood for a while. [...]
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An original post from: Seth Godin
First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions.
In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
More information may help. More time without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
Deciding now frees up your most valuable asset, time, so you can go work on something else. [...]
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An original post from: Jamie Chapman
For people to achieve great things, their goals require them to learn new skills and to leave their comfort zone. This is the opposite of the SMART goal setting approach: Specific; Measurable; Achievable; Realistic and Timely.
If people don’t have to learn new skills and leave their comfort zone to achieve [...]
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