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A Moment of Reflection on 50 Years

The Center For Leadership Studies

In the fall of 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published “ In Search of Excellence.” Suddenly, there was expansive interest in all kinds of “soft-skills training.” We were also blessed to have customers that forced us to keep tabs on emerging technologies and principles of sophisticated learning design and measurement.

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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. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills. Rather than making their powerful writing skills even stronger, children weak in geography waste time on remedial geography with few results.

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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. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills. Rather than making their powerful writing skills even stronger, children weak in geography waste time on remedial geography with few results.