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Patagonia’s ‘Vote the A**holes Out’ Tags Are a Story in Organizational Alignment

Brimstone Consulting

How did a designer get the four-word phrase on the tags of Patagonia’s Stand Up Shorts? Patagonia made headlines in September when people discovered this message on the underside of the clothing tags in the company’s Regenerative Organic Stand-Up Shorts and began posting photos of the tags on Twitter. Vote the a s out.”

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. The faster your team, customers, or managers need feedback, the more you need an iterative and incremental approach. 1,2 and so on.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees. Stakeholders are invited to submit ideas using a planning platform. Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts.

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Leadership Tip #1: Always Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Embarrassed

Johanna Rothman

You're a middle or senior manager in an organization trying to hold on in these crazy times. Yes, even though you didn't ship the wrong thing, if you're a manager, you're responsible. How do you hold both ideas at the same time? This is a kind of management debt. Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.).

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Why and How Personal Branding is Vital for Independent Consultants

Successful Independent Consulting

Personal branding is not just some touchy-feely, trendy idea, or something that just happens. A tag line should not be your job title or occupation. For example: not “ Management Consultant ” but “ Leadership for Companies in Transition. ” Manage your brand consciously and consistently. And it’s an ongoing effort.

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What Writers Can Do About Informal Plagiarism, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Yes, John is using Sam's original words and phrases and passing those words off as John's ideas. For some reason, some people feel that if the work is online, they don't have to credit the original writer for the ideas. Or, have your manager buy it for you if you can't afford it.” This happens. All too often.

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Leadership Tip #2: Do the Right Thing, Even When it Feels Uncomfortable

Johanna Rothman

A senior manager, SM, receives an estimate the SM doesn't like. SM asks a “lower” (on-the-hierarchy) manager/leader, LM, to change the estimate. What does that “lower” manager do? You might choose different words, but the idea is you, as an LM, support your team. I don't judge you for your choices.