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How To Lead With Guts (and Have Their Backs)

Let's Grow Leaders

It became harder to talk about balanced scorecards. Don’t go along and destroy the vision or someone’s career to protect your own. Be THAT guy and your career will follow. Everyone wished they had the same latitude to help that guy. 5 Ways Your Team Knows You Have Their Backs. Live By the Same Standards.

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Four Facets of Measuring Change

Change Starts Here

When I was an industrial engineer early in my career, one of my core responsibilities was measuring things. It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution. When you start to consider how to measure change, it’s easy to get stuck.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/7/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

BOOK REVIEWS Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing Dave Kerpen Taking Flight!

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Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition

Harvard Business Review

Let me begin this post with a personal confession: Although I’ve talked with many managers about career transitions over the years, I’ve never had a career transition myself until now. Staying with one firm for an entire career is unusual amid today’s serial job progressions and longer life spans.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

They understand the big picture, but also sense the truth about what’s possible today, balancing facts and firsthand experience. They are pragmatic and opportunistic, and know how to create a sense of urgency amongst their teams. Ever since, he has been very conscious of costs and comparisons of leaders and laggards.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative. Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have.

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