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Featured Instigator: David Greer

Lead Change Blog

He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system. Subsequently, he has been an angel investor, executive, marketer, coach and facilitator, always working with entrepreneurs to help them and their business grow to the next level.

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10 Gifts For You To Succeed In 2011.

Rich Gee Group

Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. Every so often, a person comes along, writes a book, and changes the way people act. Napoleon Hill did it with”Think and Grow Rich”. Dale Carnegie — “How To Win Friends and Influence People”. Stephen Covey — “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. And Keith Ferrazzi — “Never Eat Alone”.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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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.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room. At times it drove the materials manager crazy.” And you will have a production product in 11 or 12 months.”.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.