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Leading Views: Good Poker Players Know When to Fold

Leading Blog

In Adhocracy , Robert Waterman notes that “Bureaucracy gets us through the day; it deals efficiently with everyday problems. Waterman explains: Stud poker is a good metaphor for this process. But as each card is dealt, just as a project proceeds through each phase, you buy more information on the probable success of the outcome.

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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? And this employee/object will remain at rest (no movement – no raises, no promotions, no new projects, no GROWTH) until “a sum of physical forces” are acted upon it. Can Change Your Career. Guaranteed.

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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.” PI was a custom house that lived project to project for the better part of 25 years. What impact has it had on your life/career? Then things changed — in a hurry! We are also very excited about all that awaits us moving forward!

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