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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. Teaching-Training.

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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

At this writing, the pressure to meet numerical performance goals is roiling the entire education profession. As attempts to improve education in the United States began focusing on the results of standardized tests to measure student, teacher, and school success, the pressure magnified at all levels to do the wrong thing.

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The ‘why’ of sales and selling will lead you to be the wise salesperson.

Strategy Driven

I sat in a Jim Rohn seminar one day in 1995 and heard him say, “Formal education will earn you a living. Self-education will earn you a fortune. You decide how much of a fortune you want to earn by how willing you are to self-educate.”. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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The Final Piece to the Quality Hire Puzzle

Strategy Driven

For instance, did you know that 53 percent of all job applications contain inaccurate information and that 34 percent of all application forms contain outright lies about experience, education, and ability to perform essential functions on the job? You also need to factor in unnecessary loss of time for recruiting, training and productivity.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet, less than 2 percent of all professionals have had formal education or learning to understand and improve listening skills and techniques. This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together. Book value is not guaranteed.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Education-Growth – Didn’t know any better. Failures Make the Best Case Studies – Case studies of success and failure form the basis for planning, improvement, training and other business practices. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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The overlooked power that may be your sales kryptonite.

Strategy Driven

How does what you see impact your world, your education, your sales, your career, your success, your family, and your life? Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Windshield time.

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