When Choosing a Job, Culture Matters 0
Harvard Business Review, Bill Barnett Some organizations will excite you. They’ll stimulate your success and growth. Others will be stressful. They may lead you to quit before you’ve accomplished much or learned what you hoped to. With the pressure (or excitement) of finding a new job, it’s all too easy to pursue a job opportunity or to …
Read MoreThe View from the Top, and Bottom 0
Bosses think their firms are caring. Their minions disagree NEW YORK | the economist AS WALMART grew into the world’s largest retailer, its staff were subjected to a long list of dos and don’ts covering every aspect of their work. Now the firm has decided that its rules-based culture is too inflexible to cope with the challenges of …
Read MoreHow Do You Change Your Company’s Culture? Spark A Movement 0
Scott Goodson, Forbes – “Culture” is the hot buzzword in business these days, and with good reason. Many business leaders are coming to realize that if a company’s internal culture isn’t healthy—if it isn’t focused on the right values and goals, and if it isn’t behaving in the right way—then ultimately, that will become apparent to …
Read MoreTerra Incognita – No Dragons, Just Gremlins 0
Thoughts From the Coaches’ Corner By Gordon Silcox Medieval maps are popularly thought of as marking dangerous, unexplored territories at the edge of the known world with such phrases as, “Here There Be Dragons” or even, “Here also are huge men having horns four feet long, and there are serpents also of such magnitude that …
Read MoreThe Paradox of High Potentials 0
To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used to tell me, “There’s a …
Read MoreSoaring to Success 0
By Mara Brown Soaring to Success is a career and life enhancement and empowerment manual. Brown guides the reader to focus on the opportunities inherent in challenges and help discover personal and professional success, happiness and fulfillment. Soaring to Success allays the fears and anxieties that are prevalent, directs us to find our passions to …
Read MoreCoaches Corner: Mara Brown 0
Mara Brown is a best-selling author, powerful and effective executive coach, board facilitator, television talk show host/producer, and inspirational speaker. Mara uses a unique and powerful approach to coaching to help clients achieve their goals, dreams and desires. Some of the companies Mara works with on the topics of career development, leadership skills, strategic planning, …
Read MoreDoes It Pay More To Be Pretty? 0
Poor Samantha Brick. You pen one little piece for The Daily Mail in which you opine about the pros (free drinks!) and cons (haters!) of being beautiful and you set yourself up as an internet laughingstock. In addition to being left out of bridal parties and bullied in photo sessions, Brick contends that being pretty …
Read MoreWhy Your Employees Are Leaving … 0
One day when I was out getting a coffee, I overheard a man talking on his cellphone. “We need to be stricter with our hiring practices next year,” he said. “We want to keep them past a year.” I wanted to turn around and tell him, “Maybe you don’t need to be stricter with your …
Read MoreThe Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time 0
Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work? It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. What we’ve lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines …
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