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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6 Leadership Lessons from Rudolph

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Eleanor Biddulph

‘Tis the season! One annual tradition in my house is gathering to watch Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. This year, I watched it through the lens of leadership. Imagine Burl Ives, as the voice of Sam the Snowman, applying the lessons of Rudolph to the workplace… 6 Lessons in Leadership Scenario 1 Rudolph first apppears as the [...]

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You Need a Good Bad Idea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Ron Edmondson

I love a good bad idea…don’t you? The truth is, in a healthy organization, there really are no bad ideas. At least not in the organizational sense. Here’s what I mean… If you have someone on your team who is coming up with ideas, who is trying to do their best for the organization, who [...]

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Developing People: A Key to Eliciting Excellence

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Michael Beck

As leaders, it is important to understand yourself well. It is also essential to know who you are as a person and who you are as a leader. Knowing Thy Self It is from this point of knowing your self that you can look beyond the boundaries of your own knowledge, experience, and expertise and see [...]

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Leaders: The 24-Hour Rule To Firing People

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Christa Dhimo

Why?  Why, Why, why, why, why? WHY can’t people get firing someone RIGHT THE FIRST TIME? In the past year, so many high-profile examples have been put before us as “how to not fire people.” It’s embarrassing to witness. Is “foot-in-mouth” disease running rampant with those who fire people? Foot-in-Mouth-a-thon Think of these examples: Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, [...]

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