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Leadership Lessons in Classlessness and Class

Next Level Blog

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

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Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful

You're Not the Boss of Me

Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → September 6, 2010 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful Labour Day weekend always feels to me like a harbinger of renewal. I think it is a perfect tool to use when taking organizational, or personal, inventory.

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A Year in Review…and a Hint at What's Next

You're Not the Boss of Me

Encouraging Dreams highlights two such stories and also, I think, gives us an opportunity to consider dreaming as a practical tool for achieving great things. Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. And, it helps if you are a Gilbert & Sullivan fan too.

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Six lessons in how to interview… from the trenches

Roundtable Talk

Before getting thrown in head first to the world of assessment, I conducted countless management interviews using the same toolkit of questions: what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, blah, blah, blah etc. Getting comfortable and competent at interviewing is a key tool for your toolkit. down the line.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. From ethnographic research to journey mapping to cocreation, employ the same tools as UX designers to create your organization’s own signature employee experience (EX).

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Making Setbacks Work For You

Tim Milburn

In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” “But I have never had trouble with senior management,” she said. Related posts: Are You Addicted To Tools And Allergic To Work?

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