Henman Performance Executive
JUNE 19, 2018
Almost every year, a senior person in one of my client companies gets fired. Sometimes I’m surprised to learn of the firing, but more often I spotted troubling behavior years before. When the leaders or board directors must fire a senior person, the company suffers financially-often to the tune of a million dollars, but one […]. The post Ten Best Ways to Get Yourself Fired appeared first on Henman Performance Group.
David A Fields
JUNE 19, 2018
You know that writing can be a powerful, business-generating vehicle for your consulting firm. But writing is challenging, and the toughest obstacle to hurdle isn’t time. Let’s find the bigger impediment and blast through it.
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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
JUNE 19, 2018
It was Friday at 5:45 PM and I was driving in Baltimore’s rush hour traffic. I was on my way to Virginia to have dinner with a client before leading their strategy session the following morning. The sun was shining and all was going well until my tire pressure alert started to flash. “Oh great. Not this again,” I thought. The alert had been sensitive during the winter cold, so I assumed it was the same issue again.
Consultants' Consultant
JUNE 19, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Last night I listened to a panel of Analytics Leaders at IAPA. Matt Kuperholz, Chief Data Scientist, PwC who was the number 1 leader said this: It’s our problem if the c-suite don’t understand The panel was very much in favour of the soft skills required to explain analytics and algorithms in a way that […].
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Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 19, 2018
Secret #1 is the biggest one: More bad ideas. The more bad ideas the better. If you work really hard on coming up with bad ideas, sooner or later, some good ideas are going to slip through. This is much easier than the opposite approach. Secret #2 is more important: Generosity. It's much easier and more effective to come up with good ideas for someone else.
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LSA Global
JUNE 19, 2018
Workplace Politics and the Dangers of Infighting. One of the ways to quickly disengage workers is to allow infighting to become a real issue of “us vs. them.” We know from our annual engagement research that workplace politics creates employee disengagement regardless of industry, geography, tenure or title. Engaged workforces have smoothly running teams where disagreements can be handled constructively.
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2018
Heidi Grant, a social psychologist, explains the right ways and wrong ways to ask colleagues for help. She says people are much more likely to lend us a hand than we think they are; they just want it to be a rewarding experience. Grant is the author of Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You. Download this podcast.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 19, 2018
Scenes from Union Square Cafe as the staff gets ready to open for the day show the company's culture of "enlightened hospitality" in action. For more insight, read "Danny Meyer's Recipe for Success.
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2018
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 19, 2018
Scenes from Union Square Cafe as the staff gets ready to open for the day show the company's culture of "enlightened hospitality" in action. For more insight, read "Danny Meyer's Recipe for Success.
MBO Partners
JUNE 19, 2018
Follow these five tips to stay on track with professional development and grow your independent career.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 19, 2018
The secret ingredient to the success of restaurateur Danny Meyer is culture. As his company has evolved from a single restaurant to an empire -- including multiple restaurants, the Shake Shack chain, and a venture capital fund -- the focus has been as much on how people are treated as on how the food tastes. Meyer's career provides a case study on how companies can scale slowly while maintaining the culture that has given the company an edge.
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2018
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. The #MeToo movement started by activist Tarana Burke gained momentum in October of 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano invited women on Twitter to respond “me too” to her tweet if they’d experienced sexual harassment or abuse. Women did so across social media, telling their stories and revealing the extent to which so many had lived in silence.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2018
MakiEni/Getty Images. I couldn’t stop crying. Months of late evenings and demanding travel had cracked my professional exterior. I tried to present my quarterly numbers while my colleagues squirmed in their seats, offered me a box of tissues, or just stared. My boss abruptly ended the meeting. My colleagues quickly evacuated the room. I was left alone in the conference room, crumpled tissues in hand.
Harvard Business
JUNE 19, 2018
hbr staff/thelinke/Getty Images. After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell semiautomatic rifles in its hunting and fishing stores (it had already stopped selling them at its main stores after the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting). The company has gone on to destroy the guns it pulled from its shelves, rather than selling them back to the manufacturers.
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