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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! Here are five great posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to kick off your work week and help you Maximize Possibility in your organization. License.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Enjoy!

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Two Things to Remember as You Change the World

Persuasive Powerhouse

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time.

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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers. What are the 8 skills?

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). By not doing anything you are just supporting bad management. “getting rid of&# a manager is not the right way).

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list.

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Beware of Innovations from Daily-Deal Sites

Harvard Business Review

Decades' worth of academic marketing research has repeatedly shown that price promotions are fraught with danger and are suitable only for very specific purposes under special circumstances. Simons Distinguished Associate Professor of Management at Rice University in Houston. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.