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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”. The great news is that if you are dedicated to it, and spend the time it takes there are some wonderful long term benefits for you and your employees. All Rights Reserved.

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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  How long term is your perspective?  The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. It's all about perspective and intent.    Those aren't rhetorical questions. 

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Reinventing the Wheel: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers Chris Zane Ben Bella Books (2011) How to establish and then sustain long-term (if not lifetime) customer relationships What we have in this book is a personal account by the founder and CEO of Zane’s Cycles.

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Highlighting Our February 2017 Sponsor: Leaders Made Here

Lead Change Blog

This month, Mark will be releasing his latest book, Leaders Made Here. This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. As Mark explains in the book, every organization dreams of having enough leaders. Leaders Made Here: Blake’s Story.

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27 July 2011 - Midtown, NYC - Mastering Workplace Performance

Jason Womack

a long time! Focus: According to one of my mentors, Allyson Lewis (author and investment manager), our attention span is about 7 minutes long. Now, that's not just how long we can hold our own focus, but it's about how long we can go before we're interrupted by someone on the desk. "Do Do you have a minute?" Hers.verbs!

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3 August 2011 - Canton, Ohio - Mastering Workplace Performance

Jason Womack

I'm humbled and excited that over 50 took advantage of this day-long opportunity to look at how you work, not only at what you do during a day. For most people, 15 minutes is about an "eternity" in terms of office-focus time. Really, how long CAN you work, before someone asks you for "just a minute." What is productivity?

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

Next Level Blog

I found Porter’s book to be a fun and thought provoking read. As an economics geek, I figured Porter had to discuss my favorite principle, opportunity cost, somewhere early in the book. But, for decisions with a strategic and long term impact, slowing down enough to consider the opportunity costs makes a lot of sense.

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