Month: June 2017

How to feed the brains of your high-potentials

June 30, 2017

Although more than $75 BILLION was spent on corporate training programs in 2016, the fact remains that most organizations do little (if anything) to feed the brains of their high-potentials in order to accelerate their personal growth and professional development.…

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Want To Build A Better Training Strategy? Ask Your Customers.

June 30, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Julie Winkle Giulioni for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. *…

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The Unique Power of “Ruinous Empathy”

June 29, 2017

In Radical Candor, Kim Scott explains how almost any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — can “defy the gravitational pull of organizational mediocrity.” The ultimate goal of what she characterizes as Radical Candor “is to achieve…

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Chip Bergh (chief executive of Levi Strauss) in “The Corner Office”

June 29, 2017

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Chip Bergh, chief executive of…

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Beyond the Five Senses: Telepathy, Echolocation, and the Future of Perception

June 28, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article by Matthew Hutson that appeared in The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Alvaro Dominguez *…

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Come Make the 21st Century Happen

June 28, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg Bernarda. He is is co-author of Value Proposition Design, and a co-founder of the Noé Programme. * * * We are in the middle of a cold January day, some…

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Help Perfectionists Be Less Hard on Themselves

June 27, 2017

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Perfectionists don’t like to reveal their weaknesses, which makes…

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Assessment: Do You Know How Bureaucratic Your Organization Is?

June 27, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click…

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New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves

June 26, 2017

Why do some individuals collaborate more effectively than do others? By treating evolution as a thermodynamic process, theorists have solved one the great problems in biology. The results of this research have serious implications for today’s VUCA marketplace in which…

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