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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is to enjoy the work while we are doing it (being in the moment) – and expressing our skills fully. Career Related , Self Growth | Tanmay June 30, 2010 6 Comments By Jay Chhaya, June 30, 2010 @ 8:58 am Very important point raised here by Tanmay and a very serious one as well. Think about it!

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10 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Communication skills are so essential for leaders that it is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator. Oddly enough, the key to becoming a skillful communicator is rarely found in what has been taught in the world of academia. Communicate more effectively.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. What can we do to prevent similar situations in the future? Mark Graban.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. After a further two years, during which I was looking for a new career start, I finally decided to work from home and be closer to my wife and beautiful eight year old daughter whom I had neglected a lot while running these businesses in the first place.

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How to Ace an Internal Interview

Harvard Business Review

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: The hiring manager might be looking to bring in a fresh perspective or skills that she assumes no one in the organization has. Address career blemishes. Case study #1: Make your case. Case study#2: Address concerns directly.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.