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		<title>Changing Tools for Changing Times</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With changing economic times comes the need to provide tools that are flexible to change along with them. Many organizational tools that were designed for yesterday&#8217;s performance standards and not proving flexible enough to be effective for today&#8217;s market conditions. For instance, competency-based performance management systems are proving to be too rigid for these current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=2544&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[People make mistakes. Companies make mistakes. Some mistakes are easier to overcome than others. Here is a lesson on how not to make mistakes: On February 23rd of this year, troubled computer chip maker Spansion layed off (actually a more correct term would be &#8220;fired&#8221;) 3000 employees.  Just like that.  No notice, no severance, no outplacement, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=2248&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hierarchy of Organizational Needs &#8211; Continued (3 of 3)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid &#8211; 1943 Maslow&#8217;s Pyramid &#8211; Continued (3 of 3) Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON) &#124;  Part1 &#124; Part 2 &#124; Part 3 It may be evident by now that, beyond Level 2, organizational culture plays a vital role in an organization&#8217;s position in the Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON) model.  It may also be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=2074&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hierarchy of Organizational Needs Pyramid HON Pyramid &#8211; Continued (2 of 3) Hierarchy of Organizational Needs Part 1 &#124; Part 2 &#124; Part 3 Level 3 &#8211; Relationship Building: Organizations operating at this level in 2009 have not taken much of a financial hit and are operating reasonably close to normal, even anticipating the possibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=1965&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership &amp; the Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (1 of 3)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON) Part 1 &#124; Part 2 &#124; Part 3 One way of examining your organization&#8217;s current condition and what is motivating you as a leader is with the Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON). Leaning on Abraham Maslow&#8217;s well-regarded model of human needs, we can look at organizational needs in a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=1824&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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