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The Positive Runs Out

The Recovering Engineer

To paraphrase the words of James Madison, I chose to take human nature as I find it rather than try to change it. I take it from your comment that the message I communicated to you was that people should only be rewarded and not held accountable for their actions. I just haven’t found the approach to work with that many people.

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3 Minutes to Asking Better Questions

CO2

She provides three clear ways to improve you ability to ask: Ask open ended questions Use silence and Listen Ask follow-up questions to gain greater understanding About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It was clear that Business Model Generation was a book for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. When I began thumbing through it I did what most readers do according to research, looked at the cover, identified the author, looked at endorsements, scanned forward then began on the first chapter.

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Strategic Planning – Words are Important : Blog | Executive.

CO2

If you get the words right they become alive and vibrant within the organization, if they are not clear at best they give different messages to different people. Becoming explicit rather than implicit is far more effective in communicating with many people through many levels of management.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. They clearly outline for the reader a path to innovation within any organization and point out ways organizations derail themselves in the process.

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Creating a Vision Statement

CO2

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. When we ran our last business – what we needed to be world best in was a perfect call on the phone call.

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Creating a Vision Statement

CO2

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. When we ran our last business – what we needed to be world best in was a perfect call on the phone call.