August, 2011

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The Happiness Advantage: Introduction

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Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … If you observe the people around you, you’ll find most individuals follow a formula that has been subtly or not so subtly taught to them by their schools, their company, their parents, or society. That is: If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you’ll be happy. This pattern of belief explains what most often motivates us in life.

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The Happiness Advantage: Discovering the Happiness Advantage

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Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … I applied to Harvard on a dare. I was raised in Waco, Texas, and never really expected to leave. Even as I was applying to Harvard, I was setting down roots and training to be a local volunteer firefighter. For me, Harvard was a place from the movies, the place mothers joke about their kids going to when they grow up.

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The TKO Interview: Five Ways to Fire Before You Hire… and Find the Right Person for the Job

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Hasty hiring brings eventual firing. These wise words should be the mantra for every organization hiring from today’s overcrowded job market. Especially if your company’s current hiring process consists of putting out a job posting, sifting through résumés, and hiring the first person who doesn’t throw up a major red flag during an interview, it’s time to consider a renewed approach.

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Unleashing Genius: Is Wisdom Your First Priority?

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Imagine a world, company or life committed to nourishing every glimmer of wisdom from the cradle to the grave. How would a world whose first priority was seeking and manifesting wisdom feel? Can you see how wisdom would flourish into genius with waves of innovations that naturally lead to abundance and wealth beyond our imagination today? Unleashing Genius : Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations by Paul David Walker.

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Corporate Cultures – Culture-based Work Performance Model

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In, Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done , we described the profound influence an organization’s collective values have on the controls (individual knowledge and skills, standards and expectations, processes and procedures) and triggers (individual contributors, first line managers and supervisors, executives and senior managers) that determine what work is undertaken and the manner in which it is performed.

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Complimentary Resource – Top 10 Root Causes of Data Quality Problems

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Top 10 Root Causes of Data Quality Problems. by Talend. This white paper explains the top 10 root causes of data quality problems and steps to learn to prevent them. Today, most businesses realize that their success is increasingly tied to the quality of their information. Companies rely on data to make significant decisions that can affect customer service, regulatory compliance, supply chain, and many other areas.

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The Great Eraser

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I am a big proponent of continuous improvement and the need to always improve. Unfortunately, it has brought with it a real negative. It took me 8 years of watching my two sons wrestle until I realized I had fell victim to that negative consequence. No Nonsense Retention : Painless Strategies To Retain Your Best People by Jeff Kortes. Why are some organizations able to retain their best people while others struggle with above average turnover?