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Becoming a Network Linchpin

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The connection and coordination necessary to get things done happens because of productive personal relationships based upon trust and reciprocity. Understanding and facilitating these relationships, which flow through a web of professional networks and across functional boundaries, allows employees to create productive change.

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Microsoft Office: A Competitive Advantage that Needs to be Mobile

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The challenge is to take this competitive Office advantage to the mobile marketplace through the company''s new Surface tablets and future Nokia smartphones allowing people and organizations to utilize these mobile devices more productively. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2011. John Agno: Ask the Coach Related articles.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

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Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. It employs 72,000 people, more than a third of them in America. .

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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

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Winston’s career experience included successful stints at Motorola, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. It expressed concerns about executive pay and succession planning at the lender. “We Trouble was, Mr. Winston had never seen that extensive succession plan. Source: The New York Times, February 20, 2011.

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Talent Shortages from a Changing Workforce

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The solution to this problem is pretty straightforward and I describe it in detail in my new book with David DeLong , called The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management , published by McGraw-Hill (2011). . Employee A is at risk because too much of the team’s success is dependent on him/her. In recent years, “competency mode.

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The Greatest Risk to Your Business

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Your greatest challenge and opportunity in 2011 is to join the growing number of leaders who are focusing on a breakdown of trust as the greatest risk, and creating a “Building Trust Plan” to address it. Products and Services. I define it as this: Our ability to rely on: A person (or group of people). An organization.

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Retain Talent Through a Concrete Corporate Culture

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Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The most successful brands provide an “experience”—an emotional engagement between a company and its customers. External and internal brand alignment.

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