Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards.

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Project Performance Review Survey Review 161

Coaching Tip

MARCH 17, 2011

By Guest Author Michael J Gelb. Prior to the Renaissance, the notion of individuality didn’t exist, because the concept of individuality, as we now understand it, didn’t exist. Paintings, for example, remained unsigned, and painters, anonymous, because the individual was considered unimportant. The Renaissance, with its brilliant artists and architects, sculptors and scholars, taught us anew that creativity is our birthright, a gateway to our highest expression, the secret of individuation and p

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Creativity Analysis Energy Skills 108

Coaching Tip

MARCH 14, 2011

Most new managers are in the dark about what it takes to be successful. Finding the First Rung -A study from Development Dimensions International (DDI) on the challenges facing today's frontline leader, surveyed 1,130 supervisors and first-level managers to understand how they're overcoming the challenges of their jobs and what is holding them back from being successful.

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Waldroop Due Diligence Learning-by-Doing Survey 97

Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

By Guest Author Hank Gilman. The most common question I’ve been getting during interviews for “ You Can’t Fire Everyone ” is why I even wrote the book in the first place. Not a bad question. Who needs another management book? Well, everyone who writes these sort of things think they have a new take on a old subject. I’m no different. You be the judge.

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Exit Strategy Leadership Media Books 90

Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

By Guest Author Al Weatherhead. With the national unemployment rate stubbornly hovering at 9% and in some parts of the country approaching double digits, and the media’s constant proclamations of gloom and doom , it might seem like we’re making little progress on the road to economic recovery. However, I believe that seeming lack of progress is an illusion – one akin to driving 80 miles an hour across Nebraska and thinking you’re not getting anywhere because your eyes are fixed on the horizon.

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Pharmaceuticals Creativity Long-term Power 84