Leaders: What Does the Future Hold for Our Aimless Youth?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Wayne Kehl

The young people we know as Generation “Y” will soon overtake the rapidly retiring boomer generation in the workforce. When that changing of the guard comes to full fruition, the young people of today will be expected to keep the country running by filling all of the jobs and running all of the organizations that their Boomer [...]

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Leadership Follies: Training Is Not A Cure-All

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Anil Saxena

For many years consultants and experts have tried to convince leaders that training can impact performance. It seems like the problem is no longer that they don’t believe that training is important, but that now those same leaders thing that training is the “cure-all” or “silver-bullet.” “What has made people think that training people will [...]

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Leadership Follies: Yes You Are Unique, But Not That Different

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Anil Saxena

Best practices and methodologies within organizations are useful and effective. It is not realistic to think that everything must be created or invented in an organization. But, it’s important to leverage strengths and weaknesses of the organization to select and implement the practices that will have the greatest positive impact. Making sure to involve key [...]

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Leading Change When it Bursts Through the Doors

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Delana Mckinsley

Whether it is a planned or unplanned change, the disruption through a transition is often underestimated. Are you ready for change? 4 Key Drivers  Common to businesses are four key drivers and the organizational strategy for each one of them. Once a successful link has been made to each area, each team and individual goals are understood alongside execution and fair metrics. Keep in [...]

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Slacker Talent: Your Recipe for Disaster

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Delana Mckinsley

The number of employees that are highly disengaged has doubled since the beginning of 2008. It’s tough enough to make it out of an economic downturn, but companies and leaders now also have to deal with the legacy of the talent they hired during a boom that came before that downturn. Remember the good times? The [...]

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Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Christa Dhimo

Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me.  Nerves.  Those darn nerves!  Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have gotten the best of us and promoted the worst of us.  Leadership isn’t leadership without nerves, is it. I have a close relationship with nerves.  My nerves, other people’s nerves, high nerves, low nerves… the [...]

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Leadership: A Curtsy, A Bow, or A Handshake?

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Christa Dhimo

Happy New Year everyone! And a special Happy New Year to our USA southerly continental sister’s country of Brazil for ushering the new year with the inauguration of its first female President, Dilma Rousseff.  Folks, this is leadership news that is more noteworthy than Obama assuming office, and let me tell you why. Anyone care to [...]

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