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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Provides on-going training and development. So, keep learning: read leadership books, attend seminars and webinars, and get a personal coach.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Description: Today I’m excited to be joined by Stuart Friedman from Global Context. Building A Business on Cross-Cultural Communications.

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History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) ? ?Prehistoric OD.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. History of Organization Development (Part 1 of 6) — “Prehistoric OD” By Carter McNamara on March 5, 2012. NOTE: This site distinguishes the difference between “organizational development” and “Organization Development.”

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Good Bosses vs. Bad Bosses: What’s the Difference?

Rick Conlow

The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. So, keep learning: read new leadership books, attend seminars and webinars, and get a personal coach.

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Announcing the CEO Club of Greater Boston

Emerson Consulting Group

B2B “Coffee Connection” to facilitate exchange of prospects, leads, brainstorming and resources to aid everyone’s business development objectives. To receive Club announcements of programs and other developments, subscribe to our “thoughtnotes” box at www.thoughtleading.com. Ongoing Events (Nonmembers Welcome!). Members free.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. But methods can be learned. You may think that this will be easy.

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How a C Player Becomes an A Player

CaseInterview.com

If you can, develop a plan to acquire these skills and take action to do so. However, I did not know a lot about any one thing — like sales, finance or technology. Do you have the skills necessary to succeed in your current role? If not, can you acquire these skills in a time frame acceptable to you and your employer?