Thu.Jul 07, 2011

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Executive Transitions: The Importance of Relational Intelligence

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Here’s another article written by Patricia Wheeler and featured by Marshall Goldsmith’s website, Leading News, one that “delivers state-of-the-art information and ideas about best practices in leadership, helping successful people become even more successful, not only for themselves but also for their teams and for their companies. Leading News will be sent to your email [.].

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The 3 Biggest Myths About Motivation That Won’t Go Away

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson and featured at her personal blog, The Science of Success. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. * * * People can have remarkably keen insights into their own behavior. Then again, people can also [.].

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Believe In The Future

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Believe In The Future This is one of the cartoons I did for my client, the Rackspace Cloud. It’s a riff on the famous Gandhi line, “Become the change you want to see.&# In other words, the Rackspace cloud doesn’t matter; it’s what you can do with it that matters. And that’s an interesting discussion- [.].

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Common Purpose: A book review by Bob Morris

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Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Joel Kurtzman Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2010) “Organizations themselves are mindless, so if people don’t repair them, no one will.” Regrettably, the old rules of employment have created in many organizations a serious crisis that is the result of command and control management, hierarchical [.].

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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath Gallup Press (2007) “Mirror, mirror on the wall….” Note: One of my passions in life is to help promote and (yes) celebrate business books that are “classics,&# deserving far more attention than they currently receive. That is certainly true of StrengthsFinder 2.0. You will probably find no head-snapping revelations in this [.].

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3 Ways to Increase Productivity with Better Sleep

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Don’t be fooled: staying up an hour later doesn’t mean you gain an hour in productivity. In fact, losing sleep is directly linked to poor focus and memory. [.].