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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 […]
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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
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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 »
A client recently spoke at her own event. As anyone knows that has hosted an event, any event is kind of like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. It takes what either is or feels like a year’s worth of planning for an event to go off with few hitches. So to go through the time
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Gerry Reffo, Co-Author, Leadership PQ What will they need to do? Predicting the future is risky; nonetheless the following trends offer some clues. Financial and Social Profit Many global business leaders know that delivering for society also delivers for the business. Some consider this cynical. Others see it as liberating. Most people much prefer to work
What Will Make the Next Generation of Leaders in your Organization Successful? Read More »
Owen Shapiro, Author, Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing Increasingly sophisticated robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technological marvels have already displaced many jobs once done by people—but could an intelligent robot one day take over the CEO’s job? The idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Consider: The march of automation is being driven
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The culture of the U.S. Navy changed forever as the result of the scandal surrounding the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium at the Las Vegas Hilton—a disgrace that involved the bad decisions of those who assaulted women at the 1991 symposium and of those engaged in the resulting investigations conducted by the Department of the
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