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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. License. .   Here are my picks for the week of November 29th - December 5th, 2010.  Enjoy! . 

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. To be sure, this is not just a problem for midsized firms. Ford Motor Co. (a

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How to Innovate When You're Not the Big Boss

Harvard Business Review

In most companies there's more than a kernel of truth to these managers' complaints. At the middle management level you typically don't have the clout or resources required to make sweeping changes. "They won't let me take risks." They don't tolerate mistakes or failure.". Nonetheless, the dilemma remains.