Rethinking the ways people and businesses interact
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First of all, this is not going to be a regular feature. I don’t have enough evil in my body to write about it 50+ times a year. I do have a little evil in me like the rest of you so here’s story for your Friday.
When I managed in the retail world, I managed [...]
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Do you want to be perfect? Go for it. In fact if your goal in life is being perfect, it should be fairly easy. Here’s the process:
Don’t do anything
Repeat
If you never want to get married, have kids, start a business, change careers, or take even the simplest of risks in life, perfection may be for [...]
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Because I’m not so sure you want to.
As someone who has taken conflict resolution coaching classes and been party to hundreds of employee conflicts in the workplace, most of the advice that you receive in order to resolve conflict is garbage. Do you use a five step method? Do you use an eight step method? [...]
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So corporations and unions now have unlimited spending on political advertisements? Some people are saying that this is the end of democracy as we know it.
I am sorry but Humpty Dumpty has already fell off this wall. To think that a mangled piece of legislation known as McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (or any of its [...]
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Have you ever heard the phrase “We have a branding issue”?
I have.
Here’s my hunch: it probably isn’t a branding issue. Most company and personal branding issues at their core are issues with their product or partner relations.
(That statement is probably causing some furious marketing guy or gal who specializes in branding to write a long [...]
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Like every other leader of a powerful movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has become a mythical feature of American history and widely renowned for a few short phrases and speeches. People put words, thoughts and hopes into his mouth. People speak on his behalf. Certainly, he is someone that not too many people (especially [...]
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Quantification has been on my mind. The question comes up in sales conversations, compensation discussions, product development processes and marketing messages. Heck, it even comes up when you’re putting together a resume or when you’re explaining to your parents why you’re fine making a little less money for a better job.
I find this search for [...]
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Editor’s Note: Steve Browne is a good friend of Rehaul and has conducted local HR forums for several years. One of their most recent forums focused on organizational silos and how to break out of them. What follows is an edited version of the results of that discussion. You can follow Steve on Twitter.
At Steve’s [...]
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We talk quite a bit about employee engagement at MeritBuilder. Here’s the deal: we get it. Employee engagement is a real competitive advantage. It is also incredibly difficult to measure but what’s that saying about how important things can’t always be measured?
While I don’t believe that employee engagement can always be measured, I do believe [...]
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I have been inundated with e-mails regarding the H1N1 flu virus that is sweeping the world. Whatever I did to get on these lists, I appreciate the reminder that living in a state of physical isolation helps insulate me from all of your petty diseases. For those of us who don’t have that option though, [...]
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