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A Tribute to a Fallen Hero – Thomas F. Swift (1971-2001)

Terry Starbucker

(Note this post was originally published on September 8th, 2006; I’m republishing it today to honor not only the life of Tommy Swift, but the lives of all who perished on 9-11-01). Master of Factoids. When Thomas F. Swift was around, no one wanted to play Trivial Pursuit or any game that relied on factoids and cultural flotsam.

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6 Defining Values of a Leadership Culture

N2Growth Blog

In 2006, one of my CEO clients in Sarasota, FL shared with me his annual employee engagement survey. Why should the 8-year old, first generation, 88-person software development company in San Diego expect to have the same desired culture as the 48-year old, 3rd generation, 268-person manufacturing company in Rochester, NY?

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Billons of Dollars Wasted, Part Two - What Happened Next.

Building Personal Strength

As I said in my post on December 9th , I never did write the article exposing the "Dark Secret" of the training and development industry - that organizations world-wide were investing billions of dollars annually in instruction that fails to produce lasting changes in behavior and improved workplace performance. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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2008 Quought for the Day #14 – Steve Shapiro | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Stephen Shapiro During his 15-year tenure with the international consulting firm Accenture, Stephen developed and delivered innovation training to over 20,000 consultants.

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Subjective Understanding in the Workplace: Embracing Complexity and Fostering Collective Intelligence

Mike Cardus

Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change. Emphasize embracing new ideas, challenging assumptions, and seeking others’ perspectives. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R. Griffin, D.,

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

. “I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950. It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

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