Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 6, 2012

With Christmas and New Year’s Day falling on Tuesdays in 2012-13, employers’ year-end holiday calendars will be much kinder to workers than in the previous two years, according to Bloomberg BNA’s survey of employers’ year-end holiday plans. Almost three-fifths of.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2012

As personalization becomes ubiquitous, the segmented profiles that advertisers, publishers and even presidential candidates use to define us may become more pervasive and significant than the identities we use to define ourselves. Our consumer profiles are beginning to define us in all of our online interactions, and a result may be that we get different prices at the mall — or different news articles and campaign ads on our mobile devices — based on a hidden auction system that we’re unable to

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 18, 2012

By L. Gordon Crovitz, Information Age, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2012. The open Internet, available to people around the world without the permission of any government, was a great liberation. It was also too good to last. Authoritarian governments this month won the first battle to close off parts of the Internet. At the just-concluded conference of the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai, the U.S. and its allies got outmaneuvered.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Contrary to the views of its critics, capitalism, in the long run, is not a zero sum game of greed at the expense of others. "Without consistent customer satisfaction, team member happiness and commitment and community support, the short-term profits will prove to be unsustainable over the long term," as John Mackey and Raj Sisodia point out in their book, " Conscious Capitalism.".

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2012

In this world of constant change, following a single system or model is foolhardy --the companies that succeed will be nimble and ever-changing. Global dynamics seem to be affecting every one of us no matter where we are on the planet. You hear about the new normal everywhere. The tales of woe follow a similar theme: lower starting wages, vanishing job security, pay cuts, furloughs, unpaid work, unaccustomed thrift, double-digit unemployment, five-figure job cuts and punitive new procedures f

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Science tells us that men and women use different parts of their brains and consequently have different behaviors that lead to different leadership styles. Gender-based differences play out in leadership nearly every day influencing how men and women communicate , act, react, problem-solve, make decisions and work together. One is no more effective than the other; but joined holistically within a balanced leadership team, can lead to a better business outcome.

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