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by John Potter PhD - 2010-01-13
Teams and groups are not the same. A group is just a collection of people with a shared interest. A team is much more focused with specific roles, ways of working, objectives, sense of mission and req...
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by John Potter PhD - 2010-01-13
Many years ago, two psychologists Yerkes and Dodson created an insightful law relating how people perform under pressure. If a person is under no pressure at all they can be demotivated and run the r...
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by Tammy AS Kohl - 2009-12-01
The title of this blog comes from a principle theme within a book entitled Change The Way You See Everything by Kathryn D. Cramer and Hank Wasiak. Most people are busy juggling a life that includes an...
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by Rich Nicholls - 2009-10-15
Leadership is the single biggest factor influencing personal decisions. A good leader is the most powerful asset any business can dream of. A true leader is able to inspire people to do their work. Th...
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by Sarah Martin - 2009-10-08
You can start a free petition online and not have to pay for the creation or the hosting. Online petitions have the potential of collecting massive numbers of signatures and support for your cause. Th...
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by Sarah Martin - 2009-09-29
A citizen petition is a way of asking for changes on an issue that concerns you. Under the First Amendment of the Constitution, citizens have this right to make their views known and to request that g...
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by Paula Pace - 2009-09-09
Polished!Create Your Professional ImagePaula PaceThe best laid plans - college, graduate school or MBA can smack into a brick wall at the first corporate social event.All the technology certifications...
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by Ralph P. Brown - 2009-08-23
There are many thoughts and ideas about power - what it takes to get power, to hold power and to stay in power. There are also thoughts and ideas about empowerment but these seem to run a close second...
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by Sarah Martin - 2009-06-12
When you want to submit a petition about some issue that has importance for you and a region, you do need to understand the petition process in order for it to be effective. Government agencies have a...
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by Mary Braun - 2009-04-23
When you are looking at award plaques, one of the things that you are going to be considering is the type of plaque that you are giving, and what it is going to recognize for the person who wins it. O...
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by Simon Oates - 2009-04-06
Its now an economic and statistical reality that we're living in a recessionary environment. With large corporations recruitment departments shrinking and some even making redundancies, career prospec...
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by Cecile Peterkin - 2009-03-23
Succession planning is often the key to a company's long term success. With succession planning, business owners will find that they are able to work with the leaders in their company, to hire those p...
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by Cecile Peterkin - 2009-03-23
The more that businesses start looking into mentoring and the advantages that it offers, the more that they are going to want to focus on the characteristics of a mentor. In order to develop a mentori...
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by Robert Johnston - 2009-03-23
My intention here isn't to upset anyone, but it is true that a lot of things can potentially go wrong with a presentation. I'd imagine you've had a number of awful little scenarios playing through you...
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by Kenji Tay - 2009-03-20
If you want to make it big in life, be it in your business, team sports, individual success, You need to become a good leader. To be a leader, you need to have a vision. This is more so when you are b...
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by Michael Beck - 2009-03-12
When I ask workshop participants about characteristics of both good and bad leaders, the list never includes issues of intelligence, technical skills, or effective decision-making! Instead, the list i...
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by Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. - 2009-02-22
Bravery and humility - often at the heart of fairy tales - are qualities that can inspire all of us to be the best that we can be. And, with the doom and gloom of the economic crisis, we were primed a...
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by Seomul Evans - 2009-02-10
Let s face it, there is a lot going on out there. Our economy is on the fritz and every news story tells us that one more multimillion dollar company needs a government bailout. Foreclosures are happe...
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by Seomul Evans - 2009-02-10
Any article about entrepreneurship includes advice to surround yourself with people who have been successful and learn from them. One of the biggest challenges, however, is finding those successful pe...
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by Ian G Cook - 2009-02-06
It is mid afternoon. You are sitting at your desk trying to pull together this important proposal for your boss. It is due the day after tomorrow. As you wrestle with how to incorporate a complex spre...