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Three Tips for Managing an Olbermann - Next Level Blog

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If you’ve got someone on your team who is clearly a star but regularly disrupts the chi and makes life difficult for others on the team, you’ve got a tough problem as a manager. So, how do you manage the superstar that has a penchant for stirring things up? It requires ongoing assessment and a running calculation of costs and benefits.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

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Main | What Leaders Can Learn About Speaking from Martin Luther King » January 17, 2011 Four Steps for Making Better Decisions A friend recently gave me a copy of a new book that’s out now, The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter.  How do you assess and factor in the opportunity costs of the decisions you make?

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Sorry, You've Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget

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» January 12, 2011 Sorry, You’ve Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget Recently, I spoke about leadership to a group of newly promoted senior managers.   Every manager gets an annual meeting budget.    Every manager gets an annual meeting budget.    It would work like this.  

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Next Level Tips for Women Leaders

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Main | Leaders, Your Words Matter » January 07, 2011 Next Level Tips for Women Leaders Last month, I was interviewed by Kristi Hedges, executive coach and columnist for WomenEntrepeneur.com , on how women leading their own businesses can develop themselves for next level performance.    Check it out at this link.

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Three Reminders from the Arlington Cemetery Mess

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The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The mess at Arlington reminds me of three truths that are critical to the effective management of any organization. What would be the cost of failure?

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How to Run a Staff Meeting - Next Level Blog

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What should be avoided at all costs? Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. Those are some of the things I saw that I think are worth emulating when conducting a staff meeting. What else did you see in the video?

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How to Not Be a Blockbuster

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If we had to cut our costs by 50% and raise customer satisfaction by 50% at the same time, how would we do it? Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. What do they love about us? What do we do if they start loving things we don't offer?

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