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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic? According to statistics gathered by The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the average American worker puts in more hours than the average worker in any peer country, including Japan and the U.K. How productive are you in your job?

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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Ask twenty people the difference between a team and partnership and you will likely get as many answers. But, what if a collection of people with complimentary talents focused on an innovation goal actually worked better as a high performance partnership, not as a team? Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc.

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A Case Of Mistaken Identity Changed My Life

Lead Change Blog

I was eager to learn from leaders who lived by strong moral and ethical character and was curious to read how so many individuals coming from unique perspectives would write a playbook of cohesive thought. The bedrock of Character-Based Leadership is that morals and ethics must be impeccable because they funnel into trustworthiness.

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10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage

N2Growth Blog

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#.

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Managing the “Great Expectations” of the Next Sales Generation

Women on Business

When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures. I teach and advise Gen Yers — also known as Millennials (born after 1980) — at the university level in sales and business ethics.