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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. It is how you use the information that the resources, assessments etc.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

The logic is straightforward: learn more about your function, acquire "expert" status, and you'll go further in your career. To advance in one's career, it was most efficient to specialize. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. Why's that?

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks. Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. Managers generally start out with the best of intentions.