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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

Years ago, the guru of Quality Management, W. You who are reading this are almost certainly engaged in a system with short-term incentives based on numerical targets and metrics, either in your work life, your student life, or as a parent of a student in the educational system. Accept the short-term consequences of your choice.

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Managing Talent in a Passion Driven Job Market

Strategy Driven

The question then becomes, as a business owner, leader or HR manager, what should you do about it? I would contend that the best investment you can make is in talent management. That manifests itself in how we recruit, manage, appraise and develop talent. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

It is a catalyst toward long-term evaluation, planning and implementation. Crystallize the core business in terms of viabilities to move successfully forward to some discernible point. Clarify management values. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. How will we evolve?

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience, seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. Amplify upon philosophies of others.

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Take Charge of Your Meetings!

Strategy Driven

Even if it doesn’t seem critical at the time, misunderstandings can be a big waste of time and energy in the long run, and odds are if you are confused, so is someone else. Asking questions and requesting clarification can go a long way towards avoiding long-term misunderstandings. Book value is not guaranteed.

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The Big Picture of Business – Mentoring Guides Your Success

Strategy Driven

You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. Long-term success must be earned.

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Effective Handling of Employee Personal Problems is Critical to Maintaining Workforce Efficiency

Strategy Driven

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. New managers often carry a naive belief that the personal issues of employees are irrelevant to their performance on the job and something that can be ignored. But that would be in a perfect world.