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Workplace Diversity: 4 Ways to Lead Respectfully

Rick Conlow

We can meet new people from different cultures with ease. Yet, it is not quite so easy to melt away the distrust and prejudice that sometimes accompanies cross-cultural interaction. Family and educational backgrounds. Family and educational backgrounds. Cultural norms. Furthermore, we lose empathy. For example.

eBook 139
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Maximize Employee Retention by Mentoring “Spirited Patriots”

Rick Conlow

A nasty company culture and oppressive management behavior reduces employee performance and drives them away. Values and Culture Drive Employee Retention. Here is where to start, redefine or reignite your values and culture. People today want positive work cultures that make the world a nicer and safer place.

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Great Companies and Leaders Elevate People First

Rick Conlow

They see employees as a cost and a commodity not as valuable partners, these companies and their cultures lack integrity. Provide generous amounts of training and education. Check out this complimentary eBook, How to Motivate-NO-Inspire People, Ten keys to Employee Engagement. Finally, most companies do not really care.

Company 63
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Micromanagers Lie by Not Admitting It

Rick Conlow

My wife and I are fortunate to know Dr. Rand Rasmussen, a therapist and educator in Family Counseling and Therapy. Organizations often turn a blind eye to micromanagers who tend to bring some sense of order to chaotic corporate cultures. Do you know a micromanager? He claims that there are three things people will always lie about.

eBook 40
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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

You have culture problems because you can’t actually do both in the same business. The cultures of the two different types of organizations are so entirely different. I’m loving owning a productized service business, a training company, where culture is so important. There’s an eBook. We hire people.

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An end of books

Seth Godin Blog

The death of the bookstore is being caused by the migration to ebooks (it won''t take all books to become ‘e’, just enough to tip the scale) as well as the superior alternative of purchase and selection of books online. THE TRADITIONAL PUBLISHER is culturally connected to the bookseller. SINGLE TASKING is an anachronism.

eBook 55
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Rethinking the Corporate Love Affair with Change

Harvard Business

It has kept up a feverish pace of change in its consumer offerings, shaping how we shop for everyday goods (online), who influences our purchase decisions (anonymous fellow customers), what we read (ebooks), when we expect to receive orders (same day) and where our purchases come from (warehouses we never see).

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