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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. At this level, managers are consumed with the chaos of daily operations, and seldom have any understanding—or bandwidth—to execute on the lofty strategic goals pronounced in the C-Suite. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

Like sports, the work challenges the mind, body, and spirit, and it forms strong social skills and connections imperative to performing well. They serve in project management roles, accounting roles, training and development roles, logistics roles, health and safety roles, and even roles in culinary procurement and sanitization.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work.

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The Paths of Consultancy

Tom Spencer

As general manager, he had the power to build the team to exactly his desires. Through sheer desire (and a strong talent for analytics), he achieved a top spot in an industry with no room for the gangly and physically lacking among us. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency. Numerous scientific studies link creative visualization to improved performance, goal achievement, and stress management. Organizational Talent Consulting. Doolittle, J.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

In fact, I start out speaking engagements on buying a business by telling the audience (usually management and executive level people0 there’s a good chance it’s not for them. Acquire great talent. While all buyers want capable employees, most strategic buyers (that’s you) also prefer to see a solid management team in place.