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Monday, August 30, 2010

Best Leadership Practices from the Greatest Actors

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K now your character.  Do the self-reflection required to know who you are and where you come from, and what your strengths and va...

Leadership Lessons

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Performing Under Pressure

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Nordstom's Employee Handbook - Short and to the Point!

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'Welcome to Nordstrom We're glad to have you with our Company. Our number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service. Set ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Why Once Great Companies Fail

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Jim Collins, in his book How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In  spent four years researching how once great companies fa...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

John Wooden - Lessons in Leadership

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When it comes to the topic of leadership, successful sports coaches often offer insights into how best to manage talented people.  As the N...
Friday, August 27, 2010

The Importance of Values in Decision Making

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Values are becoming the preferred mode of decision-making in business.  If we use our values to make decisions, our decisions will align wi...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy

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The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy   focuses largely on how to effectively and ethically manage lar...

Knowledge Gained from Failure Lasts Longer

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While success is surely sweeter than failure, it seems failure is a far better teacher, and organisations that fail spectacularly often flou...

Preparing for Excellence

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In business, it is possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle in sport: push past your comfort ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Rational Negotiation

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There is a lot of negotiating going on in the world today, and a lot of it is showing up on the front pages of the newspapers. There is an...

Creating a Culture of Greatness

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To build a winning a team and a successful organisation you must create a culture of greatness. It’s the most important thing a leader can...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Failure: The Secret to Success

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Positive Leadership

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Do you feel that company leaders and managers at work appreciate you? Do you regularly have the chance to do your best work?  Do you have ...

How to Spot What the CEO Is Not Telling Investors

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Corporate executives often highlight positives and downplay negatives, says S.P. Kothari, deputy dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Compassion

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" Never underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring...

Changing your Beliefs

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Do you ever catch yourself saying things like, "Nothing ever goes right for me?" If so, pay close attention to this post. Do you...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

10 Keys for Getting Value from the Values of Positive Leadership™

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Many organisations have statements of mission and values. Unfortunately, most of them sound alike. Who could quibble with the importance of ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Engage Your Brain

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Tom Peters uses an example from Dan Coyle's book,  The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.  to show ...

The Complicated Lives of Today's Leaders: Why Being at the Top Is Harder Than Ever

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“You can get advice from a hundred places but the decision to make the call is yours. The buck stops with you." -- Sandilya Vadapalli,...
Friday, August 20, 2010

R. A. S.

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Did you know that you have a built-in screening device that either admits or blocks information?  The human nervous system contains a marve...

Values-Based Leadership

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Steve Newberry, CEO of Lam Research Corporation, gives a keynote presentation based on his model of leadership. Newberry is a graduate of th...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Surprising 'Science' of Motivation

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Excellence v Success

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The best of the best make their life and work a quest for excellence and understand that there is a difference between success and excellenc...