Month: November 2012

Mollie Lombardi on “Expanding the Use of Assessments”

November 28, 2012

Best-in-class organizations are using assessments not only to understand the skills and traits employees have today, but also their capacity to grow. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mollie Lombardi for Talent Management magazine. To check out…

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Seth Kahan on getting change and innovation right

November 27, 2012

In Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out, Seth Kahan draws upon a wealth of real-world experience from which he learned a number of valuable lessons. He cites seven in the Introduction, then devotes a separate…

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Josh Linkner asks, “What’s your training schedule?”

November 27, 2012

Here is Josh Linkner‘s most recent blog post and one of his very best. During this holiday season as another New Year approaches, all of us need to consider very seriously the meaning and significance of what he shares in…

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How Children Succeed: A conversation with author Paul Tough

November 27, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Emily Huizenga during which she discusses Paul Tough’s visit to Snell Library at Northeastern University November 8th to discuss his latest book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power…

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Holly Weeks: A second interview, by Bob Morris

November 27, 2012

Holly Weeks publishes, teaches, and consults on communications issues. She is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy teaching the Arts of Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her book Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them (Harvard Business Publishing, 2008) emphasizes handling…

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HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP: A book review by Bob Morris

November 26, 2012

HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP: Implementing Organizational Change Successfully: Five Powerful Strategies to Seduce and Influence Stakeholders, Sell Your Ideas, and Boost Your Career Leon M. Hielkema LMHCpub.com (2012) Here are several new insights on how to implement successfully major…

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Three Ways to Stop Procrastination

November 26, 2012

  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. *      *      * Procrastination may feel like the…

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Valuable business lessons about talent management to be learned from George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut

November 26, 2012

Of all the business challenges that await in the New Year, none is most important than getting everyone off to a fast start in January. Some new people will be hired, others will be promoted, and still others will be…

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A History of the Internet and the Digital Future: A book review by Bob Morris

November 25, 2012

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future Johnny Ryan Reaktion Books Ltd (2010) How and why the Internet is “a centrifugal force, user-driven, and open” I read this book when it was first published in 2010 and then…

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