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Leadership in the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association

Coaching Tip

Presented to an individual within the RV industry who has made extraordinary contributions to the industry''s overall success. Norm Jacobson. Lance Camper Manufacturing Corp. Sid Johnson. Jayco, Inc. The RV Financing Community. Pete Liegl. Forest River, Inc. Wade Thompson. Thor Industries. Jim Sheldon. Monaco Coach Corporation. Don Walter.

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The Research On ROI Of Employee Engagement

Six Disciplines

The 2009/2010 Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt) communications study found that companies that are highly effective communicators had 47% higher total returns to shareholders over the last five years compared with firms that are the least effective communicators.

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The Recession Made U.S. Teenagers Less Materialistic

Harvard Business Review

For example, results from the 2008–2010 downturn, in comparison with the 20042006 period, showed a decline in the importance of owning expensive items such as new cars; meanwhile, the average view of the importance of having “a job that is worthwhile to society” rose from 3.15 on a 1-to-5 scale.

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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have

Harvard Business Review

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College. One 2010 study showed Americans spend dramatically more time than the Swiss — two extra hours per day — on social media sites).

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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9 Ways Social Media Can Make You A Better Leader

Terry Starbucker

Blogging about leadership organizes and crystallizes your thoughts – When I started writing about leadership on my blog back in 2006, I was surprised at how the act of putting things “on paper&# was so effective at taking the concepts in your head, organizing them, and converting them into quicker action. Popularity: 7% [ ?

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Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One

Harvard Business Review

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. By the end of 2006 we had created the #1 most requested inventory software for use with QuickBooks and were solidly profitable.

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