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

Leading Blog

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” This could keep people from trusting themselves. How do we do that?

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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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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.

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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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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

Feed forward is a group exercise, the purpose of which is to provide individuals with suggestions for the future and to help them achieve a positive change in the behaviors as selected by them. Feed forward helps people envision and focus on a positive future, not a failed past. We can change the future. We can’t change the past.

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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. With more jobs available, businesses are at greater risk of losing their best staff to competitors.

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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. However, a great place to start is with a positive, self-affirming value system.

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