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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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Google top management seems to now recognize that its management capability needs to improve and has taken action to realign top management effective April 2011 and to begin to re-engineer management oversight by training its managers to improve internal and external communication. Google Inc.

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Google's Project Oxygen

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Let the engineers do their stuff. The final step was to code and synthesize all those results — more than 400 pages of interview notes — and then they spent much of last year rolling out the results to employees and incorporating them into various training programs. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011.

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Immune to Change

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Powerful countervailing forces appear when we attempt to engineer positive change. Navigating through organizational change requires training, patience and encouragement. Whether unconsciously or consciously, we form attachments to objects unique to our environment that we "lean on" for support.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

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We have all been trained that the more control we have, the more successful we will be. Leonardo da Vinci was what we moderns call a Renaissance Man: he was a scientist, engineer, anatomist, botanist, painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, writer and an inventor.

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A New Approach to Recruiting Talent

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But when it comes to social recruiting using online tools, somehow these trained hunters become less aggressive. It works as a standalone search engine or as a plug-in for existing HRIS, Recruiting CRM, or Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). . By Jesson Geipel , Resound Marketing.

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Leadership: Collaboration, Trust and Generation Flux

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The world in which we were raised and trained no longer exists. In a fast-changing world, the boots on the ground--be they soldiers or salespeople , engineers or intelligence officers--often need to react without going up the chain of command for approval. The bulk of these assumptions are wrong now.

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What Politicians Will Never Tell You

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An economic downturn is a great time to learn things — carpentry, say, or aerospace engineering — that others will eventually pay for: high-school dropouts should get their degrees and a year of specialized training; high-school grads who can’t afford a four-year school should get a community-college degree.

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