Do you ever wonder what happens to all the disgraced business leaders and politicians who get caught and end up in jail? Jeff Smith, a former up-and-coming star in the Missouri State Senate, can partially answer that question for you. …
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This is the second in a three-part series on how to automate your day so that you have more time for the important things, stay at the top of your game, and remain relevant and marketable in your field. Check …
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There comes a day in many of our lives when we will briefly become famous. For one of my friends, that day came early on, when he was the first baby born in Boston in the year 1974 (his photo …
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You can be a good manager without being a good leader. You can be a good leader without being a good manager. You can be a good leader without being a transformational leader. James MacGregor Burns first used the term …
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Thoughts of love are in the air around Valentine’s Day, but Cupid’s arrow may be absent from many workplaces this year as employees feel anything but gaga over their jobs or employers. Overloaded and overstressed from the economic downturn, many …
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It’s one of the great injustices of Corporate America. Complex processes spring up around everything, and only some of them make sense. As someone with an eye toward improving productivity and adding to the bottom line at your organization, inefficient, …
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My colleagues Bruce Tulgan and Jeff Coombs at Rainmaker Thinking have trained thousands of managers in their 20+ year careers as generational management experts. In that time, they’ve identified five problems with the typical classroom-model of training. Training is short-lived …
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