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Mind Wide Open: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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Weekly Round-Up: On Effective Leadership, Resilience & Company Culture

leaderCommunicator

Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture By Tony Hsieh, Harvard Business Review In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas…. It turns out the answer is yes.

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Free Job Search Apps for Specific Careers

HR Digest

Founded – 2004. It enables users to look for the newest job listings, browse through company reviews, and learn more about the organization’s salary insights and benefits. . Founded – 2011. Switch on the job-search alerts to get easy notifications about job listings and posts. Indeed Job Search.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review. The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success. 3 Goleman D. What makes a leader? 4 Sanchez P. The secret of organizational change is empathy. 5 Dutton JE, Frost PJ, Worline MC, Lilius JM, Kanov JM.

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Research: Can a More Detailed LinkedIn Profile Boost Your Salary?

Harvard Business Review

To measure the effects of digital presence on compensation, they analyzed a sample of 1,741 executives who changed jobs between 2004 and 2011. In this article, the authors explain how the intentional management of our online personas can have a positive and measurable connection to pay.

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The Best Business Books Ever: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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16 Steps to Developing The Individuals on The Team

Mike Cardus

Performance : Is it regularly reviewed? Appraisal : In the overall performance of each person regularly reviewed in a face-to-face discussion? All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Growth : Does the person see a chance for development? What is the method? Reward : Are work, capacity, and pay in balance? London: Thorogood.