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Marc B. Spector, Principal, Spector Group Today’s workplace is going through a generational changing of the guard, as Baby Boomers retire and millennials, those born between 1981 – 2000, have increased to 36 percent of the work force, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. I’m a member of the Gen X tribe and, like […]
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Alex Raymond, CEO, Kapta It’s time to change the way we set goals. We all create them for our companies and ourselves, hoping to reach them. Roadmap may be an overused word these days, but that’s exactly what goals are – lamps on the path to success. A company without them is a company that stagnates.
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After multiple encounters over the past few weeks with several personalities in the corporate world that were on the verge of being out of control, those recent experiences inspired me to create a new series of blog entries over the coming months. These entries will be focused on the ramifications and effects surrounding ego in
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This year my clients have made enormous gains, some hiring top performers into key positions; others executing demanding strategies; everyone challenging the ordinary. But not everything happened seamlessly. Here’s what my clients taught me this year: 1. Most clients don’t lose to the competition; they lose to the status quo. Fear of change, an unwillingness
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Here I am the owner of a company that provides Travel and Meeting Management services and I have not taken my Executive Team offsite for our annual planning session in far too many years. That changed this past week when my team and I traveled to the El Conquistador Resort in Puerto Rico for our
Shame on Me For Not Remembering the Power of Offsite Meetings Read More »
Espoused beliefs reflect those perceptions that an organization’s leaders consider “correct.” Over time, members of an organization learn that certain beliefs work to reduce uncertainty, so these beliefs gradually develop into an articulated set of norms and operational rules of behavior that serve as a guide for dealing with ambiguity or difficult events. As new
Brainwashing or Influence? Read More »
Steve Zuckerman, Managing Director, Farlie Turner To succeed in business and in life, you need to build authentic, trusting, and mutually beneficial relationships. It seems simple enough, but as busy executives and entrepreneurs, time is our most precious commodity. In the absence of a cogent networking strategy, we are at risk of attending unproductive events, meetings and
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Bret Jorgensen, Chairman & CEO, MDVIP I’m an experience junkie. I’m an avid helicopter skier and snowboarder with more than 1,300 backcountry heli drops. I’ve completed the New York City Marathon and the Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon. I’ve skydived solo, bungee jumped in New Zealand, dove with great white sharks off South Africa, trekked in Bhutan, and
Susan Fowler, Senior Consulting Partner, The Ken Blanchard Companies What if you changed the belief that the primary purpose of business is to make money to a different belief: The purpose of business is to serve. Hard-nosed businesspeople push back on this idea with a traditional argument: “You can serve all you want, but this soft stuff
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There have been a few articles in various media outlets recently about how businesses will be shifting to more contract workers in lieu of hiring salaried workers through the year 2020. However, this practice has already been going on for more than two decades at most of the major companies in the world, so with
Is that in my Contract? Read More »
