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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! Bob Sutton, Harvard Business Review Blog : True Leaders Are Also Managers - Warren Bennis famously wrote that "Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who  do the right thing."

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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. This "too fast/too slow" leadership conundrum reeks of "Goldilocks" management — transformations and turnarounds should be neither too fast nor too slow; they must be "just right."

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Therefore the following tips were designed to help you get the most out of your reading while maintaining efficiency in your reading efforts: Books : My first piece of advice is that if you don’t own a Kindle or other e-reader, go get one. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

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Diet and Exercise Tips from Process Fitness Fanatics

Harvard Business Review

After Jacobs' revival, top corporate managers at Danaher got religious about process improvement — so much so that they created their own version of Lean: the Danaher Business System. But the key to success is a management process for focusing on business imperatives called "policy deployment," from the Japanese term " Hoshin Kanri."

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Why Write A Book

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). All Rights Reserved. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Performance Management and the Pony Express

Harvard Business Review

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.