CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The harder you pull your tong away from the pole the greater the pain. At first you blame it on the company, then it may turn to blaming it on your people, and finally it seeps in ever so slowly that it may be you. It is only when someone comes from outside the system – your teacher, play ground supervisor that the true remedy comes.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 60

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 29, 2010

Say it ain’t so… Posted on March 29, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments In 1999 Dan Pink put out his book Free Agent Nation based on his earlier Fast Company article and changed my view of organizational life as I knew it. Personally, I found the entire article pretty ridiculous. → Death of the Free Agent Nation?? Happy leading!

Godin 28

Godin Blog Article Career 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Copying techniques have improved so much that some counterfeits now look just like the originals, while online sales make fakes even harder to spot. Many want genuine articles but buy fakes by mistake—mostly high-class counterfeits sold as original items. Cracking down on counterfeits can be difficult for luxury brands.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Merchandising Tactics 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. Over the past forty years employers’ expectations for work have changed and they now want more out of their employees than paying them to be a cog in a machine.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 2, 2021

If you fail to do so, you’re working in the dark. When you give people too many choices, you make it harder for them to make a decision. Others take weeks, or longer — because those sales have a high price tag, involve multiple decision makers, or affect several locations. Dealing with the wrong person. That’s risky.

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Proposal Audience Price Travel 134

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In his introduction to Working , the landmark 1974 oral history of work, Studs Terkel positioned meaning as an equal counterpart to financial compensation in motivating the American worker. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Just how much is meaningful work actually worth ? Dan Pontefract.

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Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Every time I tag (assign a descriptive keyword to) a bookmark, I'm telling Delicious a little more about what this web page covers, as well as something about how the keyword(s) I chose relates to all the other keyword(s) other people have used to describe the same page. For a long while I even wore my Delicious tag cloud on my laptop.

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 1, 2009

Many years ago, when I was working as a Personnel Officer in the Head office of a very large organization, I was invited to attend a breakfast and listen to the President & Chairman of the Board, talk about our goals and challenges. Here’s a link to an article written by Molly Edmonds , called Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Memory.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In other words, they are harder on themselves than I ever could be. Tweet This Post Tagged as: blackjack , hiring rules , Leadership { 9 comments… read them below or add one } Pat Strader November 1, 2010 at 12:16 pm Great advice on assembling a team. Wendi Ellis November 2, 2010 at 2:10 pm I love this article.

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Micromanagement Follow-up Blog Learning-by-Doing 326

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

It not only ensures an even distribution of work and responsibility, it also provides important opportunities for individual exploration and growth. Turning a concept into an assignment while it is still in its formative stage makes everyone’s job harder. I expect we all agree on that. And, you are the one that must be accountable.

Delegation 40

Delegation Crisis Blog McCarthy 40

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 24, 2010

But, as this new century unfolds, language like this will re-shape what matters and reveal its harder edge as we put it into practice. Cultural awareness is about the values, beliefs and perceptions that are part of the organization and the people who work in it. Collaboration speaks to the need to work together for a common purpose.

Leadership 57

Leadership Self-aware Diversity Blog 57

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Any good project plan (that’s an article in and of itself) will have milestones attached to it. Balancing the previous point, don’t make the celebration a veiled attempt to get people to work harder. Let’s get right to them. Results Components Base it on milestones. Really celebrate. Think about when.

Workshop 184

Workshop Blog Video Learning-by-Doing 184

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Work Quality and Accuracy. But your work is far from over. The owners want consistent profits.

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Metrics Mission Statement Download Objective 243

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course. TY Mario Körbler January 4, 2010 at 10:03 am Build up a network and try to find partners to work together… Janet J M January 4, 2010 at 11:06 am The virtual Q-Tip is my very favorite. Especially when things aren’t going your way.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 28, 2010

These folks had worked together for a long time. Tweet This Post Tagged as: Leadership , professional skepticism { 12 comments… read them below or add one } John Richardson March 29, 2010 at 7:06 am As my old boss used to say… trust and then verify. What happened? Too much reliance on the “past relationship&#.

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CPA Learning-by-Doing Long-term Career 234

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. And this can’t be just your run-of-the-mill, 300-750 word article due to the explosion of content on the web.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Personal branding isn’t new; Fast Company made Tom Peters article a lead story more than ten years ago. A literary agent would look more favorably at a book on the workings of the human brain from a notable brain researcher than from John Bell. It is much harder than the corporate world! Branding the Aspiring Novelist.

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