There is no doubt about it. Everyone is in holiday mode. Clients are busy trying to wrap up their year-end and are pressing with last minute requests before budgets disappear. There are extended vacations. There are stops and starts because Christmas and the New Year fall within the week. Let’s face it… it is a […]
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Recently, my seven-year-old granddaughter told me about an exciting day they had at her school. John Mabry, former St. Louis Cardinals player and current batting coach for the team, paid a visit to Julie’s second-grade class. I asked Julie what Mr. Mabry’s speech had been about, but she informed me he didn’t deliver a prepared
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Cindy Wahler Our values form the basis of our personality. These values permeate our personal and professional lives. It is believed that during what is considered our formative years, approximately the period between ages 0-7 our basic personality is formed. (http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_development.htm ) Of course ensuing life experiences also shape who we become. Our values determine
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Tina Hodges, CEO and Chief Experience Officer, Advance Financial Employee engagement may sound like a workplace trend or HR buzz term, but when embraced by company leadership and planned strategically, it’s anything but a fleeting concept. Taking a holistic approach to employee engagement is a sound business practice even today when digital engagement beckons and
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Mary Van Skiver Regardless of the timing or the method of your business transition, developing and executing a roadmap for the journey takes time, thought and effort. This often makes it difficult to turn the key and start the first leg of the adventure. However, owners and leaders who have the desire for their business
Mike Morris, CEO, Topcoder A great deal of our success at Topcoder can be attributed to strong company culture, and as CEO, building this culture is always top of mind. When Topcoder, now the world’s largest workforce marketplace for digital innovation, launched in 2001, we quickly realized culture was just as important to our success
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Mike Agugliaro, Founder, CEO Warrior When I first started studying martial arts in my teens, it was the focus, physicality, and rigorous discipline that attracted me to it. I liked that practicing martial arts was all about harnessing my raw inner power into a devastating punch or a kick. Now, three decades later, and having just
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Transformational Leadership: How To Prosper as a Leader In Today’s Hypercompetitive Environment How Organizational Factors Can Facilitate or Can Inhibit Leadership Effectiveness The term transformational leadership has described an inspirational role that managers can apply to enhance the organization’s intellectual capital and ultimate performance. The question arises whether organizational factors themselves can be a source
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Piyush Patel, Author, Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Enterpreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture That Matters After almost a year of hard work and plenty of late nights, my team at Digital-Tutors launched a greatly overhauled version 2.0 of our online training platform in early 2010—about a year before Netflix made online video
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Walt Disney ignited a fire in the entertainment world that continues to burn brightly decades after his death. Perhaps no single figure has so dominated American, and indeed even global, popular culture the way Walt Disney has and still does. Each year, millions view Disney movies, visit theme parks that bear his name, watch Disney-branded
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