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Business Strategy

Get Real: Your Brand Isn’t The Issue

by Lance Haun on January 21, 2010

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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Breaking Through Organizational Silos in HR

by Lance Haun on December 28, 2009

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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The Changing Social Contract And What That Means To You

by Lance Haun on December 2, 2009

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is coming to you courtesy of Dustin Henderson, CEO of MeritBuilder and one of the people that puts up with me on a daily basis.
Welcome to the company you will retire with. No, it is not GM, Boeing, or for that matter any of those companies your parents begged [...]

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Six Steps To Manage Change In Your Organisation

by Lance Haun on November 18, 2009

Editors note: Today’s post is coming of you courtesy of Chris Farmer of The Corporate Coach Group in the UK. Take it away Chris!
Change is the only universal constant. You can be on one of two positions in respect to change:

You can drive change.
Or be driven BY change.

Those who are the victims of change find [...]

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Stop Being Afraid Of Putting Information Into Customer’s Hands

by Lance Haun on October 13, 2009

My first job was at a fast food place. It was a local chain that was trying to go for this retro 60’s diner like atmosphere. So I had to wear a button down, white, short sleeve shirt (actually a snap down, white, short sleeve shirt) and a tie to work at a place that [...]

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Exploiting (For) A Good Cause?

by Lance Haun on October 12, 2009

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you didn’t know that, you were probably living in a cave. Every NFL game has had a bunch of oddly placed pink items on their uniforms and fields. Television and billboard advertising is up in major cities around the country.
I get it. I can’t think of too [...]

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Exit Interviews Are Band Aids On Broken Legs

by Lance Haun on May 26, 2009

So let’s say you’re working for a company with turnover problems (i.e. losing your best people to competitors) and management comes to Human Resources to figure out why people are leaving. What far too many HR people will suggest is that the organization should use an exit interview to get the information and report on [...]

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