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Of Presidents and Culture
How the Culture of John McCain, Barrack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton Might Affect their Presidency
What kind of president will John McCain, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton be? The answer may lie, in part, in the culture that they are a part of. Culture affects leadership and this year’s election for president of the United States has never seen such stark cultural differences between the 3 remaining candidates.They Won't Buy if They are Asleep
Why presentation skills are essential for sales
Christmas was going to come early. I was about to see some I was going to have a chance to see cutting edge technology that a leading corporation would be unveiling. On paper it was going to be a great presentation. and the excitement was palatable. The person presenting would be a software engineer who would talk about how this new technology was signaling the direction the company was moving. It was really an amazing opportunity for them as well to take advance orders and generate excitement.
7 Ways to Attract and Retain Talent
Most organizations never utilize their greatest asset in the battle for top talent - their culture. A number of studies have been done on attitudes of what people are looking for in the workplace. However, if you think of it in terms of what motivates you in your career, many of the items on our list simply follow common sense.
Here is our list of 7 ways to attract and retain talent:
Why Most Organizations Hate Real Diversity
From Talent Management magazine - February, 2008
Growing up in a Jewish home, I never really understood what it was like to know the disappointment a child feels when they finally learn there is no Santa. That was until recently. After 11 years of having my own consulting practice, I decided to join a large and fast growing human resource consulting practice. A friend who worked there told me it was a good place to work and I went through four months of interviews and psychological assessments. I had read the books that they had written and were familiar with their good reputation for teaching leadership to organizations. I was going to be working with people who I felt understood and valued what made me different. I was going to learn how these great thinkers were able to apply what they taught to create what should be the perfect workplace.
Boy, was I wrong! No Virginia, there is no Santa Claus.
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Moving Beyond the Mission Statement
Innovation and creativity shouldn't be confined to a wall in reception
From Chief Learning Officer magazine - February, 2008
It was one of those rare moments of candor you get
when dealing with senior
management. “I know that
our mission statement talks about innovation and creativity,”
an executive once hesitantly told
me. “But we really don’t want
people thinking outside the box.
We just want to make the box cheaper.”
Translation? She wasn’t really
interested in innovation and
creativity. She just wanted to
keep costs down.
Using Multiple Intelligences to Build a Culture of Learning
"I am a visual learner." commented one workshop participant. "But they tell me that the only way I can learn is to experience it. I need to both see and do in order to really internalize the material. So what does that make me?"
A Strategy for Learning by Example
My Uncle Jack never wrote a book on leadership. I would be surprised if he even ever read one, much less attended a leadership workshop. He is not an expert in learning design, high performance consulting or how to engage any of the generations in the workplace.
Thinking Outside the Bag
Here are some exercises for team thinking breakthroughs.
Teamwork Tango
As a lifelong dancer, and a dance teacher of various forms of partner dancing, I have always focused not so much on teaching specific steps, as on how to work together. The goal is for the couple to move across the dance floor as a single, harmonious entity. To accomplish this, the key is for both partners to fully communicate with each other. I have also long been aware that the best leaders on the dance floor are those who are equally capable of dancing in the follower’s role. In fact, when I teach dance, I insist that everyone try both roles