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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you. The Resource: Management Improvement Carnival What it is:  The Management Improvement Carnival is similar to other blog carnivals that you may be familiar with (e.g.

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Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Harvard Business Review

The PwC consultants relentlessly stressed that "customers" were about managing transactions but "clients" were about investing in relationships. That was a distinction with an operational and organizational difference. But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors?

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Companies Are Now Making Innovation Everyone’s Job

Harvard Business Review

” Process and methodology debates have turned into the operational challenge of how best to boost people’s capabilities. This new function relies less on bold, big-buck (or -euro) initiatives than on pervasively influencing how their firms value, and evaluate, innovation behavior. ” Expensive? Influential?