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Leadership Profile: Dale Carnegie | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Since the skill was necessary in people’s professional lives but there were limited training resources available, Carnegie’s training was wildly successful right from his opening night. Delegation (1). Human Resources (4). What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy. Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop. Culture needs to be recognized as a company-wide function and not the responsibility of Human Resources.

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

Strategy Driven

Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. Human Resources Oversees Training. Test scores, grades, class rankings, GPA, SAT, professional certifications, licensing examinations, juried awards. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management.

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Tough Love Performance Reviews, in 10 Minutes

Harvard Business Review

Last fall, 53% of human resources professionals in a Society for Human Resource Management study gave a grade between B to C+ when rating how their organization managed performance reviews. At the same time, I felt it was important to do these reviews myself, rather than delegating them to others.

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The 20 Most Common Things That Come Up During Reference Checks

Harvard Business Review

The few studies that do exist, which are primarily on checks via letter in higher education, find that they may contain content that shows bias against protected classes of job applicants, and that the length of the letter is sometimes disproportionally used in decision-making.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. But without clear lines of authority and accountability, dual empowerment guarantees perpetual conflict between human and artificial intelligence. Who wants clever code bossing them around?

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 2

Strategy Driven

Those organizations and managers who use terms like ‘world class’ are usually wanna-be’s who won’t ever quite make the measuring stick. Delegating authority, empowering managers and holding them accountable for results. Optimizing human resources and building capacity among staff to manage for results.

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