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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

I had just arrived at a fancy hotel for a friend’s wedding. Right beside the dumpsters were several tables set with china, white tablecloths, and balloons for a hotel staff recognition luncheon. Many times it’s best to use big recognition forums to recognize team efforts and save the individual leadership kudos for another venue.

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Book Review: Culture Connection

LDRLB

Marty Parker attempts to tackle this “how” question in his book, Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage. This book is written about ten Canadian companies, who recently won the “10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures” award. New York: McGraw Hill.

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Resilience and the PanAm Flight 73 Hijacking - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

As enthralled as I was with the presentations, one poignant leadership lesson stood out which I knew I’d have to eventually share. Once again, this is speaks to the heart of Viktor Frankl’s message in his book Man’s Search For Meaning , which he wrote upon surviving the atrocities of the holocaust in Auschwitz. Human Resources (4).

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Here are five great posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to kick off your work week and help you Maximize Possibility in your organization.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Enjoy!

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Author or editor of 29 books. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Proactivity - Solve Problems WhileThey Are Still Small

Building Personal Strength

But I eventually pulled it all together and shipped everything to Juan, my human resources point of contact at the bank. I watched in horror when we arrived at the first hotel and saw that he hadn’t reserved any presentation rooms. He never did though, program after program, hotel after hotel.

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