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Losing Touch with These 5 Leadership Principles Leads to Communication Failures

The Practical Leader

A well-known line uttered by a desperate sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is, “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” When disconnected and undisciplined senior leaders demand way too much of middle managers and their teams, it’s a communication problem.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

William Taylor, Fast Company : Why We (Shouldn't) Hate HR - If you are in the HR and talent management profession, you have likely read Keith Hammon's infamous article in Fast Company magazine that espouses many of the reasons why workers hate HR.  I hope you had a fabulous Independence Day weekend!  Enjoy!

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

  Dr. Jason E.   After this is done you'll be able to probe deeper into a candidate's behavioral tendencies to determine if any behavioral mis-matches can be overcome or if they will turn out to be deal breakers.    That said how can I resist featuring a post like this from HR Capitalist Kris Dunn. 

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business Review

The interviewees, who were in the process of an M&A deal or who had recently been through one, included C-suite executives, private equity dealmakers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and middle managers. “Once the deal closed,” shared Enterprise CEO Andrew Taylor, “Enterprise pursued a deliberate integration.

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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

Paul Taylor was managing a UK-based factory for LF Beauty UK Ltd., Taylor gathered the factory’s 600 employees around the pallets to help everyone visualize the enormity of the waste, then mobilized a large cross-boundary group of managers and line workers. Taylor imbued the process with his own urgent pace.

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Featured in “Top 150 Management and Leaderhip Blogs” – the entire list

Rajesh Setty

Dave Taylor. Curious Cat Management Improvement. Cranky Middle Manager. Management Skills Blog. Bill Taylor. Managing Leadership. Dispatches from the New World of Work. Tom Peters. tom_peters. Three Star Leadership Blog. Wally Bock. The Business Blog at Intuitive.com. DaveTaylor. Leading Blog.

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