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Living into Your Vision
Author and management consultant Peter Block once defined a vision as “a dream created in our waking hours of how we would like our lives to be.” In fact, the word “vison” comes from the Latin word...
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What are your customers really buying?
f you take a closer look at the list of areas for discussion when starting to craft a vision statement, you would notice that our list begins with “customers.” So what are your customers really buying?...
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Creating Coalitions
Anyone who has been observing the stimulus bill negotiations surely has become much more cognizant of President Obama’s need to build coalitions and the early lessons he is learning. To paraphrase his...
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Keeping Your Balance
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it appears that President Obama is getting quite an education from both the Democrats and the Republicans. This type of education will hopefully result in the...
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Understanding the Science of Change
I have always been a big believer that the universe has a tendency to bring ideas, concepts and even people to you when you need them to be in front of you. When that occurs in my life, after I finally...
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How the Obama Administration Motivates Behaviors
The Time Magazine article was extremely instructive in helping us to understand the behavioral science oriented steps being taken by the Obama administration. In this post we’ll focus on a number of...
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Rethinking Overseas Technical Support
After nearly 25 years as a PC, I became a Mac late last month. I didn’t make the switch so I could grow my hair long – bedsides it’s probably too late for that – and I discarded my tie in favor of open...
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You can be efficient with things but you can only be effective with people
I really love my clients…they are all so eclectic and so varied. They have a unique way of thinking and my role as their guide is always interesting, stimulating and challenging. This past week...
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What to Evaluate When Hiring Executives
There are certain items that are prerequisites when hiring an executive. Ideally, the candidate should be either knowledgeable in the industry or the skills that are required by the organization to...
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Completing the Leadership Assessment
As with all interviews, and particularly interviews of this type, the key is to get to know the candidate. Therefore, as the interviewer, you must be engaging and energetic. Yet, you must also be a...
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