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Create a Conversation, Not a Presentation
Don't lead a sermon when presenting. You and your audience should reach a conclusion together.
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15 Characteristics of Extraordinary Teams (Infographic)
Some good but perhaps a bit naive advice about teams, along with a real-world translation.
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7 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Time Managers
Extraordinary time managers have a radical focus on priorities over perfection, and get more done than the rest of us.
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Five Brainless Management Fads That Desperately Need To Die
Management fads come and go, but these five turkeys keep hanging on! Liz Ryan runs down the five most brainless management fads that need to disappear, pronto
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How to write networking emails that won’t wind up in the trash
Follow these 5 steps and you may actually get a response
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Communicating Strategically with Direct Reports
The best leaders inspire their direct reports to carry out their organization’s goals enthusiastically. Indeed, with adept leadership, employees not only share these goals, but they also make them their own. But galvanizing speeches, cogent e-mails, and meticulously prepared PowerPoint presentations go only so far in mobilizing a diversely talented group of people.
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CEO who set $70,000 minimum salary forced to rent out his home after his business ran into trouble
The chief executive of a credit card company is counting the cost of his decision to set a minimum wage of US$70,000 for all his 120 employees. Dan Price, who slashed his annual US$1-million pay package to help fund his altruistic gesture and was hailed as the “world’s nicest boss,” has been forced to rent out his own home to make ends meet.
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4 Essential Traits Warren Buffett Looks for in a Leader
What Warren Buffett Wants in Berkshire Hathaway's Future CEO: Buffett definitely has a good eye for leadershi...
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How You Manage Conflict Can Make Or Break Your Leadership Career
"My way or the highway" or head in the sand - too much of either extreme can derail a promising career. Resolving conflict effectively is a key role of management.
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Avoiding The Enormous Costs Of Poor Succession Planning
When it comes to identifying and developing future leaders, ignorance can be costly. Without a robust succession management plan, your company will spend more money recruiting and potentially replaci…
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What Drives Entrepreneurial Success?
Gallup's study of U.S. entrepreneurs found that high levels of entrepreneurial talent increase one's odds of business success.
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Marcus Buckingham: Why All Talent Management Data Is Useless
I spoke with Marcus Buckingham about how HR departments are using bad data to make talent management decisions, the importance of data in an organization, and how companies need to start using the right data to make better decisions. Buckingham's books have sold more than four million copies. His training [...]
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What's It Like to Work at a Company With No Bosses?
Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, the online shoe and clothing store, lives in a trailer park in downtown Las Vegas. The Airstream Park, as it's called, occupies about half a city block, surrounded by a tall fence crowned with barbed wire and punctuated with palm trees. When I arrived in April, Adirondack chairs, picnic tables, and a colorful assortment of portable seating encircled a pair of fire pits.
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Holacracy
In Holacracy, authority is distributed. You are all now entrepreneurs.
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A World With No Bosses: Turns Out, Not That Great
The online shoe retailer Zappos has always stood out for its unconventional human-resources philosophy. For nearly a decade the company has been making something it calls “The Offer” to new hires—an opportunity to take a $2,000 stipend instead of starting the job. The company prides itself on the attentiveness of its customer service and the devotion of its workers, and “The Offer” is an attempt to weed out those who aren’t thrilled about the work ahead.
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Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management — The Year of the Looking Glass
I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time,…
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Would You Fire This Person? - Certwise Prep
If “Tracy” were on your team, how would you handle her?
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The Problem with Saying “My Door Is Always Open”
Leaders need to do more to encourage candor.
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How to create an innovation-friendly corporate atmosphere
The cry to innovate is heard around the world. Knowing the secrets behind innovation will help you and your company answer that call.
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How to spot a lying job candidate
We all exaggerate and tell half-truths sometimes. But can you figure out who is most likely to lie before they become your colleague? Maybe so.
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