Month: April 2015

Disorder in the Court

April 20, 2015

These are from a book called Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History and are questions and statements people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the…

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A Better Way to Welcome New Team Members

April 20, 2015

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. * * * When you bring on new team members, it’s important to…

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Michael Lee Stallard on “Ten Ways to Improve Your Connection Skills”

April 19, 2015

Most of the companies annually ranked among those that are most highly admired and best to work for are also annually ranked among those that are most profitable and have the greatest cap value in their competitive marketplace. That is…

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Clive Wilson on how to design a purposeful organisation: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 19, 2015

Clive Wilson is a writer, speaker, facilitator and business coach. He is a director of Primeast, a learning and development company based in the beautiful town of Harrogate in the county of North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, some 220…

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Widgets: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2015

Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People Rodd Wagner Mc Graw-Hill (April 2015) How to create “the ultimate employee experience” It is no coincidence that most of the companies annual ranked among those…

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Your Brain on Learning

April 18, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Rock for Chief Learning Officer magazine. He observes that, by figuring out how the brain works, learning leaders can change how they approach learning to promote behavioral change and increase…

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Women in Leadership: An interview of Nancy Mattenberger, Infor New York

April 17, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Nancy Mattenberger, Vice President for global consulting services at Infor, New York. It was conducted by Primeast: “Since 1987, we have been facilitating performance improvement in the fields of Leadership, Organisational Change…

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Return on Character: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2015

Return on Character: The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win Fred Kiel Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” Albert Einstein As I began to read…

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Andy Bryant (chairman of the technology giant Intel) in “The Corner Office”

April 17, 2015

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 Andy Bryant, the chairman of…

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Ascending to the C-suite

April 16, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured by the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It shares the results of a new McKinsey Global Survey, one that indicates that executives who move effectively into the C-suite are…

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