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Cowlishaw’s List of Sports Books is Intriguing

First Friday Book Synopsis

Today, I saw that he published his list of the top 50 sports books, in an article entitled “By My Reading…” (March 15, 2015, p. He is a prominent columnist and reporter for SportsDay in the Dallas Morning News. 14C) Click the link […]. Norton World Press'

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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Rogers (2003) points out the essential nature of credibility in being a change agent, embracing knowledge and safety. Rogers, E. Diffusion brings a greater leadership responsibility and a diligent focus on the common good.

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How to Get Out of a Rut at Work – Scott Mautz 5

Lead Change Blog

American humorist Will Rogers said “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces”. Here are 6 ways to get unstuck and leave that rut behind. 1) Take responsibility – Unstuck starts with “U”, and You. You have to realize you’re in a rut before you can pull yourself out of one.

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5 Critical Factors For Building The Right Team

Tanveer Naseer

Follow Kenny Rogers No matter how good you are at recruiting, interviewing, and on-boarding, you inevitably will hire some people who don’t have exactly the right skills, don’t mesh with the rest of the team, or don’t initially perform the way you expected. A more diverse team likely would have done much better.

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Why Are You Always Late?

Coaching Tip

A study published in 2012 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes found that prompting people to mentally picture a task from the perspective of an outside observer caused them to make more realistic predictions about how long the tasks might take, said Dr. Roger Buehler, the lead author of the study.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. Remarkably, the other nationality punching well above its demographic weight is Canada, with two thinkers in the top 10, Roger Martin and Don Tapscott, and Syd Finkelstein makes the list for the first time.)

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Talent As A Critical Resource

ExactHire - Leadership

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. In the first quarter of 2015, the Millennial Generation became the largest percentage of workers in the U.S. Many organizations are growing, and so is their need for talent.