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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag' Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/22/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Andreasen Peter Gray (Part 1) Richard Weylman Rutger von Post Stella & Chewy’s Steven Fink strategy+business The Creative Brain The McKinsey Quarterly The New York Times The Power of Why Thought Leader Conversation: Edgar Schein Tim Berners-Lee'

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

They imply the presence of a psychological contract or an informal, unwritten commitment in the employer-employee relationship, a concept that was earlier defined by Schein (1988). Feedback Sharing A McKinsey survey of 12,000 managers found that managers believed “candid, insightful feedback” to be crucial to career growth.

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True Leaders Believe Dissent Is an Obligation

Harvard Business Review

He also talked about his stint at McKinsey & Company, the blue-chip consulting firm, and one subversive takeaway. “The strongest lesson I learned at McKinsey that I now share with every new hire is what they call the ‘obligation to dissent,’” he told the New York Times. ” What a powerful image. .

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” In most cases, the leader of the future won’t know enough to tell people what to do.

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