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Help Pioneer Outfitters Alaska

Lead Change Blog

'Amber-Lee Dibble (@AlaskaChickBlog) has been an Instigator in Lead Change Group for a while. She joined because she wanted to do something to promote leadership and leadership development. She didn’t want to do nothing. Then, last year, there was a tragedy in her life that she’s going to discuss below. As a result, she and [.] Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other Lead Cha

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Start Here: Four Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Joseph Lalonde

'Y ou’re dripping wet, on the phone, with your “to do” list in your hand. It is only after you hang up the phone and start to towel off that you realize that you still haven’t rinsed the shampoo out of your hair. Consider this a wake-up call. Image by Karen Roe. Productivity does not mean doing a million things at once. It doesn’t mean that the job stays half done all week and it certainly requires your hair to be completely washed.

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How Leaders Deal Effectively With the Security of Their Company and People

Lead on Purpose

'Guest post by Rebecca Gray Today, the most valuable commodity many companies have is not a product, but information – proprietary systems, processes, patents, or financial information, and the damage inflicted by a security breach goes far beyond its immediate … Continue reading → Leadership policies privacy procedures security'

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From Adam Grant to Michael Lewis to Ta-Nehisi Coates – Thinking about the Pursuit of Profit in a Plenty-of-Takers Society

First Friday Book Synopsis

'“The reason black people are so far behind now is not because of now,” Clyde Ross told me. “It’s because of then.” and For the first time in the history of relations between people, a precedent has been created by which a great State, as a result of moral pressure alone, takes it upon itself […].

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Change Is Inevitable. Change Is Good. Embrace Change.

Eric Jacobson

'Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change. Here are some solid insights from Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan ''s (Liberty, Missouri) book, Change-friendly Leadership -- How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance : The kind of behavior change that results in lasting (sustainable) change must accommodate people''s feelings--feelings that involve trust, confidence, passion, and all those other intangible but very real things that make us human.

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A brief history of Memorial Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Based on some research, I learned this about what is now celebrated as Memorial Day: The Civil War claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history, requiring the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries. By the late 1860s Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen […].

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Do You Have Your Own “To Learn” List? Is It Up To Date?

First Friday Book Synopsis

'This is about some deficiencies of mine. I’ve got a few. Do you have any? Yes, I suspect you do. I was born in 1950. I’m pretty computer/tablet/phone literate. But, I am very slow. I still “hunt and peck’ on the keyboard. And I am pretty much a two-to-three finger typist on my tablet and […].

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Get Your Copy Of, Against The Grain

Eric Jacobson

'A couple weeks ago, I posted a review and highlights reca p of the new book, Against the Grain: A Coach''s Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family and Love. Fortunately, I have four copies of the book that I am eager to share with four of my Blog followers. Because I''ll cover the shipping cost, I''ll send the book (free of charge) to the first four people who provide their Twitter handle within a comment to this post.

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