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November 28 Webinar on Building Organization Muscle

The Practical Leader

After our break we had three superb panelists; Melissa Warner, Manager of Learning and Development at Canadian Tire, Lori Nemeth, Director of Learning and Development at Seneca College, and Grant Armstrong, Manager Organizational and Leadership Development at Niagara Region. A very lively 30 minute question and answer session followed.

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Small Businesses Need Big Data, Too

Harvard Business Review

A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. What you may not realize is that investing in data and learning how to use it might be transformative for your business.

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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks

Eric Jacobson

Heres a sampling of the perks that cover the vast range offered by the 60 companies: ARCO Construction Company -- Paid sabbaticals after every five years with the company Armstrong Teasdale -- Womens career-coaching program Bryan Cave -- Backup day-care/elder-care services Build-A-Bear Workshop -- Health Insurance for part-time employees Boeing -- (..)

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds , from Driving Results Through Culture , examines Lance Armstrong's fall from grace from the perspective of personal integrity: Personal Integrity is in Your Hands. Guy Farmer , from Self-Awareness Workshops presents Business Ethics and Rationalization. Corporate culture guru S.