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Things My Mom Taught Me About Leadership
Over the course of her life, my mother taught me more about leadership than any class I ever took on the subject, or any one boss I’ve worked for. The lessons were usually prompted by life experiences that she seized on as teachable moments. Her last lesson for me, now permanently seared into my being, [...]
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Optimism is an Essential Requirement for Leadership
Earlier this week, in the first game of their NBA Eastern Conference playoff series, the Chicago Bulls, absent three of their star players, traveled to Miami and beat the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat in their own building. I think it’s fair to say that a lot of basketball fans were stunned by the outcome. [...]
Continue ReadingLeaders Ought to Know
Our good friend, Phillip Van Hooser has written a new book: Leaders Ought to Know: 11 Ground Rules for Common Sense Leadership, published by our publisher, John Wiley and Sons. Here’s an excerpt from the book: “Honesty builds respect; respect builds trust — leaders ought to know that, but sometimes it’s hard for leaders to [...]
Continue Reading4 Questions to Ask Your Prospective Recruiter
By Erin Osterhaus, Software Advice. It’s hard to evaluate a third-party recruiter in advance. The ultimate test, of course, is whether the recruiter brings you high-quality candidates. But you won”t know this until you’ve worked with that recruiter for months. You”ll certainly want to choose a recruiter who has experience hiring in your industry for [...]
Continue ReadingManagers are Appointed; Leaders are Developed
The familiar text tone from my iPhone heralded the message from my nearly 25-year-old daughter this morning: “I am officially someone”s manager now. Ahhh!” Bill and I have said to audiences for years, only half-jokingly, that most of the time, people are notified of their transition to management (usually on a Friday afternoon), in this [...]
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Fat Bastards Please Report to the Corner Office… Bring Your Health Data or Your Wallet
A recent Huffington Post report highlighted a policy change at CVS Caremark, whereby workers who use the company’s health insurance program will be strongly encouraged, ‘er coerced to get a health assessment (height, weight, body mass index, blood pressure, et. al.) AND to make the results available to a firm that provides benefits support to [...]
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Back on the Ranch at Yahoo
One needn’t look far this week to hear the cries of anguish, and claims that Yahoo boss, Marissa Mayer is taking the company and its workers back to the stone age with her decision that, in the near future, Yahoo staffers need to get back to work, literally. Not so fast. Granted, telecommuting has its [...]
Continue ReadingOn ObamaCare, Employers, and the Full-Time vs. Part-Time Decision
With full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) now within sight, every organization with a payroll and a modicum of good sense is getting serious about determining their strategy and tactics with respect to the act. Some have already decided to go ahead and upgrade their health care insurance programs [...]
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Employee Engagement Fundamentals Haven’t Changed
Do you remember your first job? If you”re like roughly half of us in today”s workforce (myself included), you were most likely in your teens, and the job was part-time. And if you”re like me, while you earned a little, you learned a lot. Although participation in the youth labor force has declined steadily since [...]
Continue ReadingEverybody Else is Doing It
Last week, in his coming out confession before Oprah Winfrey and a yawning world, cyclist Lance Armstrong implied that, when it occurred, he didn’t feel that his persistent cheating in cycling competitions was wrong because everyone else was doing it. A day or so later, invoking the example of her older sister, my three year [...]
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Things My Mom Taught Me About Leadership
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- Leaders Ought to Know
- 4 Questions to Ask Your Prospective Recruiter
- Managers are Appointed; Leaders are Developed
- Fat Bastards Please Report to the Corner Office… Bring Your Health Data or Your Wallet
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Bill Catlette: keynote speaker: leadership, employee engagement
- Back on the Ranch at Yahoo
- On ObamaCare, Employers, and the Full-Time vs. Part-Time Decision
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