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Much of the best leadership advice is classic and often lays the groundwork for more modern interpretations. This isn’t always good, but it certainly works in The Offsite, which bills itself as A Leadership Challenge Fable.
In it, Robert H. Thompson presents the philosophy taught in Jim Kouzes’ and Barry Posner’s 1987 The […]
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Turnover is enormously expensive but turnover rarely stems from salary issues; high salaries won’t buy a strong, motivated workforce and money certainly doesn’t buy loyalty.
I’ve yet to see it fail that when people join a company mainly for the money (in whatever form) they will quickly leave for […]
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When I wrote about Ken Meador, CEO of TWR Lightening for my other blog I called him to clarify a few things. Ken is one of those great executives who actually return their voice mail and he and I had a great time talking—it’s always fun talking […]
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Everybody knows that leadership requires superb communication skills, both verbal and written. In fact, the better your ability to communicate the more likely you are to move forward and upward. Sadly, skilled writing is as rare as hen’s teeth and even adequate writing is getting harder to find.
Combine […]
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Yesterday you learned 5 things that a leader should do in a layoff, but what about after? Whether you think of yourself as a leader or a manager you need to deal not just with the casualties, but with the survivors—many of whom are walking wounded.
Morale and productivity […]
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Leadership isn’t always fun, but leaders need to lead.
There are ominous rustlings in the media these days about layoffs and they’ll probably happen—some real and some self-fulfilling prophesy. As the boss you not only have to decide whether, but how.
‘Whether’ is decision only you can make, but ‘how’ […]
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In January offered up kudos to Sam Zell for his approach to changing Tribune’s corporate culture, including a clear, blunt, slightly irreverent employee handbook, as a major part of turning the company around.
Definitely not your typical media mogul, but it’s so nice to hear a CEO who isn’t […]
Paraphrasing David Hannum (not PT Barnum) there’s a fool born every minute and recent happenings seem to bear that out—only most of the current fools have MBA’s and high level jobs.
And then there are the fools in Washington who for years have told us to trust industry and that self-regulation works to our advantage.
And all […]
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Kelly over at Tax Girl offers up an interesting stat—it’s costing at least $200 million to publicize and send that exciting, overwhelming, unbelievable, solution-to-the-recession “economic stimulus” check y’all are waiting for with baited breath.
As Kelly points out, “Putting it into perspective, that $200 million would have bought 74 Super […]
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Ask any leadership expert, consult any leadership book or blog and one of the constants that you’ll find is that it’s crucial to craft a vision and, more importantly, to be able to communicate it clearly, so that there are no misunderstandings.
That’s the only way to have […]
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