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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Cardus presents Planning; Nothing Magical Just Your Work posted at Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog , saying, “Within all parts of your work YOUR knowledge and thinking must be part of the plan. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Michael Cardus presents Planning; Nothing Magical Just Your Work posted at Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog , saying, "Within all parts of your work YOUR knowledge and thinking must be part of the plan. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

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Executives Fail to Execute Strategy Because They’re Too Internally Focused

Harvard Business Review

Consequently, they pay less attention to external strategic issues like competitor moves, customer needs, and technology trends. The CEO of a fast-growing alternative energy company inherited an organization built to be a holding company over five disparate acquisitions that served different segments of the energy market.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry.

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Does Hardware Even Matter Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. ” This style of “more electric” control by software also means big gains in energy efficiency.