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Reaching Your Potential: Despite racking up impressive accomplishments, you feel frustrated with your career--convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a different career altogether. These feelings often stem from a common error:...; Tags: Harvard Business Review, Career, Management, Professional Development, Leadership, Job, Robert S. Kaplan, In Brief; Articles 2008-07-18
Can A Nose Job Lift Your Leadership Skills?: The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...; Tags: Career, Human Resources, Professional Development, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Surgery, Leadership, Workplace, Layoff, Job, CC Holland; Blog posts 2008-06-16
7 Key Steps To Starting Effective Career And Succession Planning - A Vaccination Plan For The Talent Shortage Crisis: Analysts claim that talent shortages will pose one of the greatest economic threats to businesses over the next 20 years. Yet, many organizations have not built out the career and succession planning infrastructures that will help mitigate the risks of talent shortages. This paper will discuss factors causing talent pools...; Tags: Succession Planning, Talent, Career, www.TalentManagment101.com, Talent Shortage, Workforce Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2008-04-16
Do Business Like a Mafioso: Headman Bernardo Provenzano may be in jail, but he reversed the Mafia's failing fortunes and revitalized their image during the decade he was in power using a system that's detailed in a new book by John Murray. An article in The Guardian details his seven-point plan towards doing business, mafia...; Tags: David Goldenberg, Management, Career, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Leadership, Professional Development, Public Relations, Apology; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Time Management Skills, Communication Skills And Conflict Resolution - Which Approach Saves You Time: Finding time is a challenge even in the best situations. What happens when your coworkers approach time completely differently than you do? Punctuality, planning and procrastination conflicts can undermine projects if they are not addressed. However, you can learn how to utilize this to everyone's mutual benefit. Approaching conflicting outlooks...; Tags: Conflict Resolution, Communication Skill, IKnowNow, Communication Skills, Time Management, Leadership, Strategy, Career, Productivity, Management; White papers 2008-03-26

Ten Ways to Get Insanely Motivated.: My previous post "Seven Rules for Keeping Motivated" has turned out to be one the most popular I've ever posted. So I'm going to share a little more of the wisdom of Omar Periu, one of the world's best known motivational speakers. According...; Tags: Geoffrey James, Career, Management, Professional Development, Leadership, Perfection, Energy, Motivation; Blog posts 2008-03-25
How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer): Two interesting views on the career suicide of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Writing in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School professor Bill George fits Spitzer into a failed leadership type he terms "rationalizer." I believe Spitzer's profile closely fits the rationalizer, one who gets so caught...; Tags: Management, Professional Development, Leadership, Governor, Eliot Spitzer, Leader, Career, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Jason Meugniot: Beating Competition with Positive Values: Jason Meugniot, owner and CEO of Guidance Solutions, Inc., employs the practice of his company's core values in every aspect of his career. Meugniot discusses his company's forward-thinking innovation program and how he maintains long-term relationships with his clients.; Tags: Professional Development, Value, Meugniot, leadership, Jason Megniot, Guidance Solutions, Inc., Career, innovation; Videos 2008-03-08
What Makes A Great Leader In Business?: Leadership is a complex subject. We should all consider ourselves leaders, particularly those of us looking to progress our careers beyond the current nine to five days we love or endure. Whatever our occupation, admin staff to managers, refuse collectors to chefs, we have a duty to behave in a...; Tags: Leader, Leadership, Professional Development, Management, Career; White papers 2008-01-01
Executive Career Coaching: Providing Solutions To Succession Planning Challenges: Organizations today are facing several challenges and talent management is one of the greatest. According to a one poll conducted the number one challenge facing the HR profession is leadership development and succession planning. Attracting, developing, and retaining quality talent is more costly and has a greater impact on the...; Tags: Management, Human Resources, Succession Planning, Talent, Career, MJE Sales, Leadership, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Sending the Right Message to Young Talent: Many of us "mature" managers remember being told at the beginning of our work careers that the quickest way to the top was by being "seen and not heard." Seen but not heard does not cut it in today's workplace. Organizations need vital contributions from every employee,...; Tags: Human Resources, Management, Career, Workforce Management, Leadership, Professional Development, Manager, Business Skill, Talent, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2007-12-26
Looking For a New Challenge: It could be argued that society is moving backwards; that as adults, we’re becoming more child-like—demanding instant and varied pleasures to make us happy instead of developing the maturity to delay gratification. But really, what’s wrong with that? We have the technological innovations and resources to support our immediate desires...; Tags: Challenge, Decision, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management, Life, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-11-09
Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas: Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...; Tags: Workforce Management, Management, Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Performance Management, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Boss, Professor, Superstar, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2007-11-09
Managing Middlescence: The Idea in Brief ...; Tags: Talent, Tamara Erickson, Ken Dychtwald, Nassef, Employee, Robert Morison, In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Motivation, Mid-career, Managing, Human Resources, Management, Career, Workforce Management, Leadership, Professional Development; Articles 2007-11-07
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders: The Idea in Brief Should companies needing a new CEO pick someone from inside or outside? Insiders know the firm and its people, but they're often blind to the need for radical change. Outsiders see the need...; Tags: Career, Management, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Professional Development, Networking, Corporate Governance, Personal Networking, CEO, Procter & Gamble Co., Board, Network, leadership, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, succession, Joseph L. Bower; Articles 2007-11-07
CEO Survey: Understanding the Generation Gap: Age gaps between CEOs and employees explain some performance ratings. The lukewarm evaluations of CEOs also may point to a generation gap between typically baby boomer-era upper management and Gen X- and Gen Y-age employees and managers. Several experts pointed out that...; Tags: Career, Management, Professional Development, Team Management, Ethan Watters, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Performance Management, CEO, Employee, Survey, Leadership, BNET Feature; Articles 2007-10-30
Motivating Team Members: Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, BNET Editorial, motivation, team, teamwork, leader, organizational structure, technique, adjustment, career; Articles 2007-10-24
Preparing a Succession Plan: If you’re planning to retire from your small business in the near future, or you simply want to hand over the reins to someone else, it’s important to plan carefully for your succession. Planning will help you to protect the value of your business. As the owner-manager of a business,...; Tags: consultant, entrepreneurial, decision-making, financial, small business, career, consulting, supplier, benefit, team, Succession Plan, Team Management, Leadership, Family Member, Business, Successor, BNET Editorial, Management, Plan, Succession, Succession Planning; Articles 2007-10-05
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead): Don't believe the hype. These “classic” books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead. Management Consulting...; Tags: Peripherals, management, career, resources, BNET Feature, Hardware, Mice, Geoffrey James, Finance, Human Resources, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Organizational Structure, Blurb, Books, Publisher; Articles 2007-08-22
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do For Youâ€¦: Caterpillar builds multi-terrain loaders, hydraulic excavators, and other heavy equipment. They also teach their managers to nurture direct reports. While this may conjure up visions of awkward team-building exercises, or courses on developing interpersonal skills, Caterpillar's goal is very pragmatic. According to an article from Workforce Management, they do it...; Tags: Team Management, Workforce Management, Caterpillar Inc., Training, Leader, Professional Development, Human Resources, Management, Career, Leslie Leite, Leadership; Blog posts 2007-07-09