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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively. When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty. And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. How do we do that?

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Changing Behavior is Like Constructing a Super-Highway

Building Personal Strength

So I've found it helpful to use a road construction metaphor. Like building a brand new superhighway, the construction takes time. But to get that efficient super-highway, you have to persist through the construction phase, which could take months. Copyright 2011. This can happen when you talk about brain science.

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What's Wrong With Your Life?

Rich Gee Group

There is a ‘must-see’ movie coming out in February 2011 called ‘I Am’, by director Tom Shadyac. Yesterday, my post focused on your 2011 goals ( it’s right here ) and one of the questions was, “What sucked in 2011?&# Don’t just sit there and wallow — 2011 is your manifesto to change it.

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How To Become Your Own Successor

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I started developing the idea for this construct in 2011, when the Brazilian business magazine Administradores asked me who could be considered as successors to Peter Drucker, who died in 2005 at 95, as the. In other words, you can become your own successor.

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How to Tell If a Conflict is Good or Bad | Guy Harris: The.

The Recovering Engineer

The difference is whether the conflict is constructive or destructive. So, how can you tell the difference between a constructive conflict and a destructive conflict? Constructive conflict conversations focus on issues. Constructive conflict conversations focus on the future. In fact some conflict can actually be good.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. With all of this in mind, we constructed the following table to compare archetypal young founders and experienced CEOs across the aforementioned Forbes traits that define successful CEOs. This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn.

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Discrimination is an Equal Opportunity Offender

Women on Business

Mark Henricks of American Express Open writes: A 2010 paper by a University of Colorado Denver Business School researcher found that attractive women encounter discrimination if applying for positions that are deemed “masculine” roles, such as director of finance or construction supervisor.