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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Your ability to help your coachee create a “more vs. less” dichotomy is based on getting your coachee to take reasonable risks—to take positive, constructive action, accept the consequences of their behavior, course correct, course correct again, and never give up in their pursuit of positive constructive change.

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Possibility Maximizer: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License. .   After illustrating the clear benefits of using checklists to prevent simple errors, Gawande goes on to describe how to implement them into your professional life.

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The Problem with Using Personality Tests for Hiring

Harvard Business Review

They surveyed 1,000 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) members — HR Managers, Directors, and VPs — with an average of 14 years’ experience. And yet that’s how many companies operate. According to a 2011 NBC News article , the use of personality assessments are on the rise, growing as much as 20% annually.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Promote the importance of vulnerability by both modeling it and encouraging it through constructive contact. 5) Operational Transparency -. ISBN 0262133849.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. The list goes on.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. This human powered b t filter was a handy and powerful tool. That was always a good feeling. Inexpensive, and practically foolproof. An elaborate hoax. My schtick.

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Large Employers Are Key to Reforming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

An example of this is the Bree Collaborative , a multi-stakeholder collaborative created by the Washington State legislature in 2011 “to provide a mechanism through which public and private health care stakeholders can work together to improve quality, health outcomes, and cost effectiveness of care.”