Commentaries

10 Reasons Why Employees Resign

November 25, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter and featured at the Glassdoor website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * Good managers…

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Will our minds also become miniaturized?

November 24, 2012

The contents of all of the books in this photo can be contained in an electronic device that is about the size of the deck of cards. If copies of the books were purchased separately, their total cost would be…

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Ruth Mantell on “Must-Have Job Skills in 2013”

November 23, 2012

According to a Chinese proverb, the best time to plant a tree was 100 years ago; the next best time is now. In that spirit, I now begin to post some material that may be of interest and value to…

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Mark Hordes on “Six skills to creating sustainable relationships”

November 23, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Mark Hordes and featured in the Organizational Excellence Journal. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * The month of March is a time that I will…

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How to Energize Your Network

November 23, 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. * * * It’s not enough to build a network, you also…

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How and why bowling has become the chameleon of contemporary metaphors

November 22, 2012

I read Robert D. Putnam ‘s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community when it was first published (in 2000) and one of my reactions then was that his use of the bowling metaphor was limited to bowling…

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Resilience Quotations: Part 1

November 22, 2012

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” Robert Jordan “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with…

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Restarting the US small-business growth engine

November 22, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an outstanding article co-authored by John Horn and Darren Pleasance, featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company. Reinvigorating small business starts with identifying the high-growth firms that disproportionately drive economic activity…

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Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton on how and why “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch”

November 21, 2012

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog post by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, the co-founders of Culture Works. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * Too often in our…

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How to get the donkey out of the well?

November 21, 2012

Quite by accident, I came upon an excellent example of leadership resilience at the Beliefnet website, the modern day fable of The Donkey in the Well. * * * One day a farmer’s donkey fell into a deep well. The…

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