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When was the last time you had a good belly laugh. I mean one of those laughs that consumes every part of your body, that literally stops you in your tracks, almost gasping for air… that kind of laughter. Have you ever thought about it? When was the last time you laughed like that? Or […]
When leaders continually and constantly grapple with tough questions and develop a list of standards that serves as more than a pretty poster, their beliefs serve as the bedrock of the organization’s strategy and provide guidelines about how and what to change. When beliefs veer from espoused values and create a dysfunctional or confusing set
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Edgar Papke, Author, THE ELEPHANT IN THE BOARDROOM: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of Success To be a truly successful leader requires you to be aware and operate at four levels: global, organizational, interpersonal, and self. Each level presents its own set of challenges. At the global level, you need
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Top talent is crucial to your company’s success. Without it, you’re not in business. That’s why no task on a CEO’s agenda is more important than recruiting and retaining top talent. In today’s employment market, that takes work. A recent survey from the society for Human Resource Management found that 59 percent of HR executives
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Christie Caldwell, Director of Consulting (Asia-Pacific), Aperian Global The HR VP for a major US corporation leans across a broad desk on the 33rd floor of a glossy office building in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. “We basically have a leadership crisis here in APAC when we start to hit the director level. From this level
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With the holidays here, we will soon find ourselves outside of the office as leaders and members of a different type of team. Apart from serving as CEOs of our organizations, we are also children, parents and siblings. We are cousins, aunts and uncles, and friends to others. As you take time to reflect on the importance
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Barbara Wittmann, Leadership Coach What we can learn from tribal culture to inspire sustainable business 10 years ago I walked away from a fancy corporate Job and started my own IT consulting business in Munich, Germany. In a highly competitive market it was not easy as a small player and “newbie” to get ahead. In
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You may remember George Burns. The cigar-gumming circular-bespectacled comedian. He was known for many things from his acting parts in Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys from his earlier vaudeville fame to the fact that he lived to be 100. You may not know that he was born Nathan Birnbaum. He was one of 12
Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one
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As I got up and started my morning, I told my plants and rocks what we had accomplished for humanity yesterday, and I asked them for guidance for today. Looking around I also realized that a white orchid that has been with me for two blooming cycles was doing its best to hold it together.
