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The Four Big Lessons for Today's Leaders - A "Tune-Up" for Executives (Popularity:  )
http://www.workforceperformancegroup.com
Leading an organization or a work team in today's environment calls for special skills and abilities. This requirement applies to every industry and all areas of society. No longer is it good enough to lead by your "instincts". We know that the skills exhibited by successful leaders are not ones that they were born with; we learn leadership skills, and regardless of how we might evaluate our present skill level, ...
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The Future of Change Management (Popularity: )
The future of change management is when robotic artificial intelligent androids will be the ones making decisions rather than people and humans will have to accept this without sabotaging the equipment or computer systems. This will be when robots vs. machines compete for the top executive positions.
It will be funny too because the artificial intelligent business decision systems will be able to work without ego, over confidence, pride, spite, vindictiveness ...
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The Vertical Turtle - Two Lessons About Enabling Change (Popularity: )
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We all realize that the speed of change in organizations and in our lives is increasing dramatically. In order to succeed, employees must help one another survive this rapid change.
Let me relate a story that happened to me to illustrate this point. Some years ago in July a weather front came through Marietta, Ohio dumping about six inches of rain on the surrounding area. The next day, the rain continued ...
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The Whole Person (Popularity: )
http://www.nanrussell.com
Henry Ford is reported to have quipped, "Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?" The 21st century version doesn't sound quite like that, but its essence prevails in plenty of workplaces.
The functional equivalent of Ford's thinking is housed in statements from supervisors, managers, and coworkers like: "What do you mean her kid is sick again, and I ...
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TRIZ - Local Quality (Popularity: )
http://www.davinciandthe40answers.com
"Newsworthy does not necessarily go to the worthy," proclaimed Dean Rotbart.
We had just started Day One of the incredibly intriguing Academy course, "Newsroom Confidential," taught by Dean, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist for the Wall Street Journal, and I was already awestruck by how inaccurate conventional wisdom is in regards to the world of Public Relations.
Rotbart's session was truly an eye-opening experience. Throughout the two-day course, Dean's ideas continued to scream ...
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Why Do People Resist Change in Their Personal Life? (Popularity: )
http://www.connect4results.com
"Inflexibility is one of the worst human failings. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence, and laziness with discipline. It carries the seed of its own destruction"
-Anonymous
• Ask a lady who lives in Perth to wind up her business and move to Cairns. Unless the reason to move is tempting, she is likely to say 'no'
• Ask a man to wind up his business of marine products ...
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Work Management is now available to everyone (Popularity: )
http://www.taskey.com
Work management is an essential subset of management used to get work done. Typical work management activities are:
• Managing goals
• Sorting out relevant tasks
• Planning tasks
• Organizing work
• Managing meetings
• Involving people outside your work teams
• Keeping stakeholders informed
• Coordinating work and teams
• Creating ToDo lists
• Reporting Progress
• Managing personal and team time
Major constraints on Work Management
While intensively studying how people actually (naturally) work together to get work done, we ...
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Work Networking - The easy way to manage work (Popularity: )
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Social networking has revolutionized the way people can find out what is happening outside work. Work networking will revolutionize the way people find out what is happening at work.
In most workplaces, people find out what is happening, and what they need to do for relevant tasks, through networks of people around those tasks. These people networks keep the work flowing.
Some innovative managers have tried to employ social networking ...
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