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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

It’s one that started in the early 1990s with authors like David Armstrong and Peg Neuhauser, and continued in the 2000s by authors like Annette Simmons, Evelyn Clark, Lori Silverman, and Stephen Denning among many others. I started my own company. What has Lead with A Story done for your career? I feel you started that trend.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

I kept the logs and learned about the music, the record companies, the composers and much more. I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. That was a cue for the studio DJ to play a commercial for the Career Shop, a clothing retailer. We train people to be trustworthy. One cannot live entirely through work.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. I have a history of going a little overboard with the “healthy physical habits” – for example, weekly fasting or excessive training for athletic competitions, etc. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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Small Businesses Need Big Data, Too

Harvard Business Review

These companies, ranging in size from seven to 45 employees, sell such things as dairy products, baked goods, vegetables, and desserts to Tesco and another grocery chain, Sainsbury’s (we tasted some pretty amazing soups during the course of our research—a tough job, but someone has to do it). From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks

Eric Jacobson

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Helping those companies to earn that honor are the perks they give their employees, some of which you might want to consider for 2011.

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When To Coach And When To Counsel

Eric Jacobson

As a coach , a manager: identifies an employees need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. Coaching is collaborative. You coach to help retain employees and to show you care about your employees as individuals.

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5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review

Eric Jacobson

How can I help you reach your career goals? Thanks to Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell for these questions -- just some of their great advice from their book, The Essential HR Handbook. What conditions here enable you - or make it hard - to do your best work? What do you want most from your job?