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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. When we move beyond just developing ourselves to developing others, it signals that we are transitioning from the power of me to the power of we. When CEO Sam Palmisano stepped down at the end of 2011, there were several qualified replacements, including Rometty.

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Best Jobs for Women in 2012, Stress-Free Management Tips, Victoria’s Secret’s Human Trafficking Problem

Women on Business

News and Insights from Business Women (December 16, 2011). The Glass Hammer shares the story of Karen Wimbish whose career soared after her children had grown. Best Jobs for Women in 2012. Jenna Goudreau of Forbes shares a list of the best jobs for women in 2012. At the top of the list is post-secondary teacher.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

He developed a theory that people tend to develop a self-concept based on one of four factors — Dominance, Inducement, Steadiness, or Compliance. Later psychologists and behavioral specialists developed a variety of practical tools to apply Marston’s theory. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer.

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Authors.

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Leadership and Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

This post is from June, 2011. Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. I happened across a movie the other day called Straight Talk. It’s about a young woman who was accidently hired by a radio station to be an Agony Aunt. What do you think?

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. Goals must have a specific time period And now for some subtle nuances that will help make your 2011 goals more achievable: 1. So why fight it? Goals must be prominent 9.

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