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Shorts: Chip and Dan Heath on what is working
In Seth Godin wonderful E-book What Matters, Chip and Dan Heath write: We’re wired to focus on what’s not working. But Murphy asked, “What IS working, today, and how can we do more of it?” You’re...
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On hiring smarter than you and according to strengths
Photo by Sekimura It is all one to me if a man comes for Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. (Malcolm S. Forbes) I was finishing my reading of Guy Kawasaki’s great book Reality...
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Shorts: #Linchpin on Teamwork
Seth Godin, Linchpin: There are plenty of bosses who fear the idea of indispensable employees and would instead encourage you to focus on teamwork. “Teamwork” is the word bosses and coaches and...
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Just because you are successful, doesn’t mean you need to be a manager
Two similar ideas by two different people, both espousing an idea I really like: not everybody needs to be a manager; Even though we all think we do. In this short TED talk, Richard St. John, says,...
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The star system – bad news for teamwork?
Photo by Coredy Bob Sutton writes in his blog about Boris Groysberg’s Research on star employees – Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: The results of this research are interesting because, while some...
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What’s working?
Photo by Marcin Wichary We often hear people say that they need to work on their weaknesses. Today in class, I heard someone say that he sees the positive feedback he receives as pat on the back, but...
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Play time!
Photo by fdecomite Another great quote from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (see the first one here): Penelope assumed that somewhere out there was someone who was already perfect. Relationship...
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Not everybody can
Photo by ProfAlliRich “Anybody can pour a cup of coffee, rent out cars, sell pairs of jeans. Except, of course, they can’t. The [businesses] that are the best at these things take ‘anybodies’ off the...
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The right job and the manager’s role
Photo by quapan Bob Sutton wrote a very interesting post a few days ago. Here are the main parts of it: I realized that while much of what I write about focuses on bad versus good bosses, jobs, and...
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Make yourself non-equitable
Scott Ginsberg (or in the name is more famous for, The Nametag Guy), introduced a challenge on his blog. He has a new book out, called -ABLE: 35 Strategies for Increasing the Probability of Success in...
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