How to Negotiate a Publication Agreement.
General Leadership
MAY 22, 2021
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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. The benefits last decades.
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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. The benefits last decades.
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How to Explain That Gap in Your Resume
HR Digest
DECEMBER 11, 2019
To make sure your sabbatical isn’t holding you back from getting your dream job, here are a few tips on how to explain that gap in your resume. If you have taken a break in your career and are now looking to get back into the workforce, the question is how do you explain that absence in your resume or to potential recruiters.
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Narcissistic leadership: How to identify narcissists and cope with narcissism at work
CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
In fact, empirical research has focused on the personality characteristics of flawed leaders and have pointed to negative personality traits as predictors of leadership derailment (Hogan & Hogan, 2001; Kippenberger, 1997).
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Transforming Chit Chat into Productivity
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 17, 2011
Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup (2001 to 2011) knows how to stay on task; all successful leaders do. He’s setting up his office in Philadelphia after retiring from Campbell’s on July 31. When he picked up the phone, he was unpacking boxes. I asked him what was happening in his life. Doug has a [.].
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189 Be Bold In Life.
Rich Gee Group
DECEMBER 4, 2010
I was going through some papers that take me back to 2001-2002 and I saw this phrase, “Be Bold In Life&#. Next post: How To Deliver Unbelievable Customer Service. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home.
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The 9 (or 99?) Ps of Leadership
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 26, 2018
Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students. You’re planting a seed.
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How To Be A More Effective Work-From-Home Employee
Eric Jacobson
JANUARY 15, 2016
There’s No Place Like Working From Home includes chapters on: Making your workspace work for you Conquering computer challenges Staying motivated Setting goals and priorities Managing your time Creating the optimum work/life balance Prior to founding her consulting business in 2001, Quinn held sales and management positions with various Fortune 100 (..)
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0813 | Outsmart Your Instincts with Adam Hansen
LDRLB
APRIL 20, 2017
This impulse led him to a career in developing new products for innovative companies such as M&M/Mars, Melaleuca and American Harvest, before joining Ideas To Go in 2001. In this interview, we discuss how our biased hold us back…and how to hold them back in return. Why Irrationality Emerges and How to Deal With It.
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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture
Strategy Driven
MARCH 15, 2021
You have to know how to be agile, flexible and decisive. It is not a fad; it is not something that can pass you by, because it has fit into a changing, demanding and information overdose environment. The smart working is something that has come and hopefully to stay. Agile origin.
How Healthcare Can Help In The Fight Against Climate Change
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
The area had lost 60% of its forest cover due to illegal logging between 1985 and 2001, and the intervention not only provided healthcare but also training in sustainable agriculture. The post How Healthcare Can Help In The Fight Against Climate Change first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. Curbing deforestation.
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Do You Ask Enough Questions?
Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Recently, while looking for a document on an archive drive, I stumbled across an unfinished draft from 2001. We did figure out how to make the trip work, and the guests had fun, but the company lost money that day because we needed more raft guides than covered by our pricing to ensure customer safety. Sincerely, A mom in 2001.
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10 Disability-Supported Job Boards That Can Make Your Search Easier
HR Digest
OCTOBER 25, 2023
AbilityLinks Launched in 2001, AbilityLinks provides a job board to provide disability-inclusive jobs to people with any form of disability as well as veterans. Not only does the platform assist with recruiting, but it also provides training solutions to improve opportunities for the existing workforce.
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Corporate Recruiters Rank Communication as the Most Highly Valued Business Skill
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Since 2001, the Corporate Recruiters Survey has been produced annually by the GMAC, a global nonprofit education group of leading graduate business schools and the administrator of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). What’s your plan for improving your own daily communication skills? David Grossman. _.'
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Roth IRA vs 401(K): Which Should You Choose?
HR Digest
JULY 9, 2022
We’ve provided tips on how to go about selecting which works best for you. This retirement account was created by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act in the year 2001. Maybe your company offers matching funds or doesn’t offer any retirement plan at all. Roth IRA vs 401(k). appeared first on The HR Digest.
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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed
Coaching Tip
JULY 16, 2015
In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. Reading "Innovating Out of Crisis" will give you a history lesson on how to engineer transformative organizational innovation and product diversification. Maybe I was brought into this world to overcome this crisis,' I thought at the time. What happened? What did Fujifilm do?
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Logistics For Your Business
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
Working out how to get your products from the manufacturers, to the storage, and then from that warehouse to the customer. Fast Company, March 2001. It can become somewhat of a conundrum. All of the logistics need to be worked out and in play pretty early on in your business planning. Priorities.
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Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 8, 2015
Simmons is also the author of, The Story Factor (2001), which was named by 1-800-CEO-Read as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.
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What are your unique leadership strengths?
Coaching Tip
MARCH 18, 2015
How to discover your strengths is to take some leadership self-assessments and to ask others with whom you have worked closely. It shows us how to avoid reacting in negative and potentially self-limiting ways. Here are some business bestseller books that you can read to learn how to be an effective leader. " Clifton, Ph.D.
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70 Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!
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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50
Tanveer Naseer
APRIL 1, 2014
From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.
Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals
Coaching Tip
MARCH 18, 2012
The above exercise is taken from the book, " How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work " by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (Jossey-Bass 2001). . “On She and Professor Kegan offer some case studies in their book, “ Immunity to Change : How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization.”.
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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Performance Excellence
The Practical Leader
AUGUST 8, 2012
Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. The support they need is someone to talk to as they practice how to handle different situations, what to do when they’ve blown it, and how to learn from those setbacks. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.
Five Proven Paths to Training Pull-Through
The Center For Leadership Studies
AUGUST 6, 2020
Hands down, the Achilles heel of every learning and training professional is determining how to help the people we sent to training—or trained ourselves!—to Cambridge, MA: Perseus; 2001. Which one of the five “HOW” strategies is the best-match solution for you to deploy on the heels of an upcoming training?
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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
While veteran unemployment rates have come down in recent years, numbers for Gulf War Era II veterans (those who left to military after 2001) without a job continues to outpace those for the general population. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for this most recent group of transitioning service members is 5.8
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Why Every CEO Needs a Leadership Coach
Coaching Tip
DECEMBER 20, 2016
When asked what was the best advice he ever received, Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, recognized it was from John Doerr, who in 2001 said, "My advice to you is to have a coach." A coach is somebody who looks at something with another set of eyes, describes it to you in [his] words, and discusses how to approach the problem.".
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70 Creating Satisfaction at Work: No Instant Pudding
LDRLB
OCTOBER 4, 2010
The trick is that even if you know you have a problem with satisfaction, most managers struggle with how to improve it. That too is not an easy fix since most organizations do little to help managers and supervisors at all levels understand how to identify and implement effective improvements.
Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Performance Excellence
The Practical Leader
AUGUST 8, 2012
Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. The support they need is someone to talk to as they practice how to handle different situations, what to do when they’ve blown it, and how to learn from those setbacks. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.
Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 24, 2010
These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.
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22 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Fate Of The Furious
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 17, 2017
A Reel Leadership Article My mind is still trying to comprehend how there are now 8 Fast and the Furious movies. It seems like yesterday I was leaving the Cinema Carousel after watching the first The Fast And The Furious movie in 2001. Little Nobody didn’t know who he was talking or how to talk to him.
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206 Possibility Maximizer: Fresh Milk Newsletter From Contented Cows
Sales Wolf Blog
JUNE 4, 2010
It lets you know their heart is in this business for the right reasons, and in many ways this newsletter reminds me why I started The Rainmaker Group back in 2001: an unwillingness to accept the status quo of today's workplace and an intense desire to make it more inspiring and rewarding for both employees and managers.
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113 Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.
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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19
HR Digest
OCTOBER 17, 2020
And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We suggest: Assess how to set rewards in a depressed stock market.
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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19
HR Digest
OCTOBER 17, 2020
And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We suggest: Assess how to set rewards in a depressed stock market.
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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history.
Tempering The Golden Rule With the Need For Self-Preservation
The Idolbuster
JULY 10, 2012
I brought up the Golden Rule, [as a model for how to interact with others.] One guy said ‘that doesn’t work for me, because I don’t care how I am treated.’ i] Bernton, Hal (15 May 2001). “Simon,” a director at a mid-sized corporation in the Midwest, shared his experience with me. “I He was almost sociopathic about it.
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The Personal Strength of Courage - Action in Spite of Fear
Building Personal Strength
JUNE 17, 2010
In 1980, I was researching Army training practices in order to write a manual for junior leaders on how to train solders. About a dozen drill sergeants barked at the soldiers as they climbed the tower, learned how to tie a seat and took their first descent over the edge. I remember being afraid one night in 2001.
Has the HAL 9000 Finally Arrived?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. They should immediately give special consideration to how to leverage the vastly improved capabilities of natural-language systems.
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14 Decisions, Not Events, Shaped Leaders After 9/11
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Kearns, who graduated college in 2001, enlisted in the Army on September 12 of that year. When asked on NBC's Meet the Press by host David Gregory how 9/11 had defined his generation, Goodwin demurred and said 9/11 did not define his generation anymore than Pearl Harbor had defined the Greatest Generation who fought in World War II.
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13 How to Anticipate a Burning Platform
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 11, 2012
For example, in the mobile phone industry, Motorola's margins started to sag around 1994, Nokia's in 2001, and Research in Motion's in 2009. When those profit margins start to trend down, it often signals an emerging weakness in the core business. Yet none of these companies was in outward crisis when these declines first appeared.
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How to Brand a Next-Generation Product - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2016
Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. “There’s a lot of research about new-product branding, but as best as we could tell, nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand a successive generation,” Gourville says.
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Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2011
In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." I don't think they understand the game Apple is playing. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. Not that they're alone.
The Art of the Elevator Pitch
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2018
How to Land Your First Paid Speaking Gig. In 2001 it was that the original iPod allowed you to carry “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Assessment: What’s Feeding Your Fear of Public Speaking? Nancy Duarte and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. 6 Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation. Kasia Wezowski. Dorie Clark.
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