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Conflict Resolution Techniques: Question Your Assumptions | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

His voice tone grew sharp, and his volume went up. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Apparently, John heard Joe question the necessity of solving the problem. Reply What Do You Think?

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Being sharp means being succinct. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. Best regards, Dan scottgould Mike, This is so good.

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle

Terry Starbucker

Because of something called hubris, an affliction that seems to lurk around nearly every leadership corner, mixed in with a fear of failure. You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.