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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

Experts in the Netherlands predict that, on average, a child born today will pursue 7 professions during their working career. That’s an entirely different paradigm than in the 1950’s of pursuing one profession during a lifetime, probably for only one organization! What’s good for the organization.

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to. Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Developments of global network organizations. Permanent phenomenon.

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Face-to-face networking is still the key to connections.

Strategy Driven

How important is face-to-face networking to sales, relationships, career, and success? I asked my commercial insurance agent, John Cantrell, to give me a synopsis of his networking strategies. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization. Leads groups.

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How’s your networking working? Better if you follow the rules.

Strategy Driven

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International. HISTORY: I began my networking career more than 25 years ago, so I consider myself a relatively sophisticated meeting attendee. Many of you know this group. These are my top 9.5

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. When we learn, we add new skills or knowledge to what we already know.

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