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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Here’s wishing you a fabulous F5 holiday—family, friends, fun, food and fireworks!


Be happy, stay safe and I&#8217;ll see you next week!

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		<title>Miki’s Rules to Live by 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Miki’s Rules to Live by 18
The day before a long weekend doesn’t seem the time to offer up anything heavy, instead here’s another of my Rules.
Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.

Read them all, you’ll find a lot [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: rate of change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Wordless Wednesday: rate of change
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		<title>Workplace problems and solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Workplace problems and solutions
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Want to know what people are really thinking about the hottest topics in the workplace? Then check out Business Week&#8217;s massive discussion of the top six topics.
The six topics are the result of voting by 8500 people; they are

Work-Life Balance
Staying Entrepreneurial
Time Management
Negotiating Bureaucracy
Toxic Bosses
Generational Tension

&#8220;…now we’re looking for [...]
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		<title>Culture trumps whether hiring or acquiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Culture trumps whether hiring or acquiring
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Recently, the conversation at Slacker Manager turned to how a manager bounces back from a bad hiring. Although the five steps Barry Moltz listed are good, I commented that they didn&#8217;t include making hiring a priority and core competency, which would do much to alleviate bad [...]
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		<title>The amazing cost of interruptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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The amazing cost of interruptions
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Don&#8217;t you love it when experts and powers-that-be formally study and recognize what the rest of us could have told them—namely that constant interruptions ruin productivity.
Remember years ago when that guy in the next cubicle talked too loudly on the phone, constantly got up for coffee or [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: communications = perceptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Wordless Wednesday: communications = perceptions
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Check out my other ww: communications = perceptions

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		<title>Relationships and corporate culture go hand-in-hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Relationships and corporate culture go hand-in-hand
Looking for a great place to work? Great Place to Work® Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) just released their Best Small (50-250 employees) &#38; Medium Companies (251-999 employees) to Work for in America. (The website also gives the results for the last four years.)
So, [...]
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		<title>Avoiding the next meme generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Avoiding the next meme generation
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Perhaps &#8220;As you sow, so shall you reap&#8221; should be rewritten, &#8220;As you parent, so shall you hire.&#8221;
The generations that parented the Millennials are reaping the results of confusing self-esteem with entitlement.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, narcissism researcher and author of Generation [...]
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		<title>Corporate culture success stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Corporate culture success stories
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There&#8217;s no time to post about all the interesting articles on corporate culture that I find, so I thought I&#8217;d offer several up with a few notes.
Wow! A founder who not only knows the front-line people (read: those the customers see) are the key to success, but puts [...]
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		<title>Corporate culture is perceptional</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Corporate culture is perceptional
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What reality do you live in?
Not your spouse&#8217;s or your kids&#8217;; not your parents&#8217; or your friends&#8217;. You live in the reality created by your MAP.
The reason is simple—perception is reality.
We filter our mental, emotional and physical surroundings through our MAP and, like snowflakes, no two people have [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: a despot&#8217;s dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miki</dc:creator>
		
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Wordless Wednesday: a despot&#8217;s dream
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Don&#8217;t miss my other WW: not for sale

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		<title>Changing corporate culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Changing corporate culture
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In April David Kirkpatrick, a Fortune senior editor, wrote about what it takes for adults to find value in Facebook; less than two months later comes a story about how recently hired Serena Software CEO Jeremy Burton is using Facebook to change the company&#8217;s corporate culture.
Serena isn&#8217;t a hot [...]
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		<title>Executives dying to collect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post from: MAPpingCompanySuccess
Executives dying to collect
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A post on Yielding Wealth asking readers how they defined &#8216;wealthy&#8217; reminded me of a post I wrote year ago about executive pay, which included having your taxes paid on various perks, and even on compensation.
But the &#8220;golden coffins&#8221; being made public due to a rule change 18 [...]
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		<title>Errors happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post from: MAPpingCompanySuccess
Errors happen
I write a lot about the importance of communications, written and verbal. Last summer I wrote about the difference just one letter can make to the meaning.
Rarely do I see typos in business headlines, so when a bulletin from Market Watch hit my email I was really surprised. Here it is.

My point? [...]
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		<title>It&#8217;s the people, stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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A couple of decades (give or take) ago Terry Dial, who eventually became vice chairman of Business Banking at Wells Fargo, told me that “People are 90% of our costs as well as the key to customer service and satisfaction. The only thing that should take priority [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: imagination takes flight</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: imagination takes flight
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Check out my other WW: democracy and stuff

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		<title>Work-life balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Work-life balance
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When the economy slows, it&#8217;s easy to ignore retention factors because management kids itself into believing that replacing people is no big deal.
But slow as it&#8217;s happening, the times they are a&#8217;chnging.
At least here and there, in companies that really understand the importance of attracting and retaining scarce talent.
&#8220;To reduce [...]
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		<title>What thinking reflects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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What thinking reflects
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James Heskett is a Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and posts some of the most intriguing research questions I see at HBS Working Knowledge (FREE registration),
This week is no exception.
&#8220;According to Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman, nearly all research techniques commonly used today probe humans only at [...]
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		<title>Crooked stories for Friday fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Crooked stories for Friday fun
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Does one really have to be an accountant, lawyer, minister or whatever expert in order to recognize when something is likely illegal or, at the least, unethical?
&#8220;That&#8217;s not my area of expertise&#8221; is the excuse du jour on most of the financial games being played—especially option backdating.
I [...]
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		<title>Millennials, change and history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Millennials, change and history
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Ryan Healy starts his post by saying, &#8220;There’s no doubt that Generation Y will fundamentally change corporate America.&#8221;
It&#8217;s an interesting post, filled with the brashness, dreams and optimism I&#8217;ve come to expect as each new generation enters adulthood—whether I read about or lived through them.
Still more interesting are [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: worm&#8217;s eye view</title>
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		<title>Personal energy usage way up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Personal energy usage way up
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All kinds of energy prices are rising—not just those that are petroleum or corn-based.
Think about the energy you expend each day dealing with your family culture, company culture and social culture, not to mention your personal culture, AKA your MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™)
And not just one kind [...]
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		<title>Speaking of jobs&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Speaking of jobs&#8230;
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Does the economic slowdown or whatever you want to call it really translate to a shortage of jobs or is something else going on?
In the Northwest it seems that the problem isn&#8217;t jobs, it&#8217;s what people are willing to do.
&#8220;Steve Klein [general manager of Snohomish [...]
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		<title>Living with your MAP</title>
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Living with your MAP
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All this talk about knowing yourself/your MAP reminds me of something I&#8217;d like to share with you.
Twice recently people have commented on how direct I am and both times it caught me up short. Not because I&#8217;m unaware of the trait, but because I&#8217;d forgotten about it.
For [...]
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		<title>Legal isn&#8217;t always ethical</title>
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Legal isn&#8217;t always ethical
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We all know that legality and ethics don&#8217;t go hand in hand, but when (generally accepted) unethical actions go from legal to illegal companies can be slow to change direction.
Example: Siemens. But first, some background.
In 1998 Germany criminalized bribery of foreign officials, but prior to that it was [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: know yourself—know your MAP</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: know yourself—know your MAP
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Self-improvement books and your MAP
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Yet another management book, this one telling you that there are five major supports for great management

 motivating others,
attracting and retaining top talent,
planning and organizing group performance,
driving results throughout an organization, and
lifelong development.

Which book doesn&#8217;t really matter and I&#8217;m not arguing with the list, but you&#8217;ve been told [...]
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		<title>The road to wisdom really is paved with years</title>
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The road to wisdom really is paved with years
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I used to be a whiz at names and phone numbers, but not any more. I excuse these lapses with jokes about accessing data with only 1 K of RAM or that my brain is so stuffed that it&#8217;s hard to keep track [...]
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		<title>Miki&#8217;s Rules to Live By 16</title>
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Miki&#8217;s Rules to Live By 16
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In our health-conscious world we&#8217;re constantly told &#8220;you are what you eat,&#8221; although judging by the constant stories in the media it hasn&#8217;t sunk in for many of us.
The sentiment applies to other things, too, as Aristotle pointed out more than 2000 years ago.
Just think, he [...]
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		<title>A snapshot of entrepreneurs</title>
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A snapshot of entrepreneurs
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Do you sometimes get the impression that, like the garage of &#8220;olden&#8221; times, the college dorm room is where most startups start? That founders are dominantly twenty-somethings, many who skipped or quit college, who got some friends together and grabbed the brass ring?
Even more hilariously, do you believe [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Coming or going?</title>
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Be sure to check out my other ww: incentive to change

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		<title>Interview with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 07:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Interview with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh
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Don&#8217;t miss Robert Reiss&#8217; interview with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh.
Hsieh believes that Zappos incredible customer service is the number one driver for sales growth that skyrocketed from $1.6 million in 2000 to more than $1 billion in eight short years, while powering straight through the dot [...]
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		<title>Where does culture come from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 07:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Where does culture come from?
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I read an interesting conversation engendered by a post entitled You don&#8217;t create a culture over at Signal vs. Noise.
Jason posts, &#8220;You don’t create a culture. Culture happens. It’s the by-product of consistent behavior&#8230;  Real cultures are built over time. They’re the result of action, reaction, [...]
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		<title>Assumptive growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Assumptive growth
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More than 200 years ago Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said, &#8220;Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.&#8221;
A hundred years later Napoleon Hill said, “Think, act, walk and talk like the person you want to [...]
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		<title>A manager&#8217;s concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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A manager&#8217;s concern
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A manager I coach was concerned about one of his people. He said that although he knew it was none of his business he felt that one of his top producers was wasting her personal time working on an idea she had for a new product, but admitted that [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: bad business image</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Wordless Wednesday: bad business image
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Don&#8217;t miss my other WW: commentary on life

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		<title>Dave Duffield does it again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Dave Duffield does it again
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Dave Duffield is a very savvy guy. The serial entrepreneur with multiple successes under his belt is doing it again; Workday, his latest company is on a best places to work list.
You may remember Dave&#8217;s last company PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle in a hostile takeover), which regularly [...]
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		<title>A lynchpin for integrating social media tools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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A lynchpin for integrating social media tools?
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Friday I wrote that age-neutral, fear-related information control is the greatest barrier to the spread of social media tools.
Today I read an interesting post by Hutch Carpenter suggesting that companies create a new position, Social Media Manager, to shepherd, not ramrod, the adoption of SM tools.
Hutch [...]
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		<title>The number 1 barrier to social media tools</title>
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The number 1 barrier to social media tools
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Yesterday, I wondered if the adoption of social media tools would parallel the spread, or lack thereof, of telecommuting and asked, &#8220;Is the problem truly generational? Age-related? A function of company size? Corporate culture?&#8221;
I believe that fear is the underlying, driving force behind [...]
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		<title>Back to the future</title>
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Back to the future
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I was talking the old fashioned way (by phone) this morning with Scott Allen on the challenges, difficulties and plain old problems (another old fashioned term) of implementing social media tools in many companies. I said that it reminded me of the late 1970 - early 80s when [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: ties that bind</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: ties that bind
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Be sure to visit my other WW leader/manger - two halves of the whole

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		<title>Is social media addictive?</title>
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Is social media addictive?
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Stephen Collins of acidlabs wrote a great guest post yesterday, explaining how he uses social media to expand his business and how many companies, large and small, are embracing social media tools to juice productivity and innovation.
But how much is too much?


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Stephen Collins on using social tools
Whether I&#8217;m socially disabled or just plain antisocial I&#8217;m the last person you want to ask about social media tools and whether/how to use them—but I keep getting asked. So when I accidentally fell into a dialog with Stephen Collins, Founder and Chief Troublemaker at acidlabs, during a [...]
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		<title>Corporate culture and ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 07:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Corporate culture and ethics
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Corporate culture is the darling of today&#8217;s pundits, toasted and blamed for enhancing, allowing, enabling or contributing to every success and failure when it hits the media—and for good reason.
But is corporate culture also at the bottom of the amazing number of ethical lapses that have come to [...]
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		<title>Meeting by design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Meeting by design
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Few people put much thought into organizing meetings, whether company-wide, department or team. The best create an agenda, but little beyond that.
If this sounds familiar, you need to think again.
The idea that meetings need to be consciously designed as does any successful, productive business process is addressed by Business [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: together we can fix it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Wordless Wednesday: together we can fix it

Check out my other WW: the road to forever

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		<title>Wal-Mart, sustainability and people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Wal-Mart, sustainability and people
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Yet another article on Wal-Mart&#8217;s commitment to sustainability. Now, I&#8217;m not knocking what they&#8217;re doing, but I do wonder if Wal-Mart&#8217;s sustainability efforts will ever be extended to their workforce.
Of course, according to Northeast corporate affairs representative Steve Restivo it is, &#8220;&#8221;Another component, and the one, frankly, [...]
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		<title>6 steps to fair and flat compensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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6 steps to fair and flat compensation
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Be sure to read yesterday&#8217;s post for background on &#8216;fair&#8217;.
When setting compensation, never forget that credentials are well known, promotions are public and salary news travels faster than naughty gossip, so secret is not an option.
Problems start when a person doing the same work and [...]
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		<title>Compensation and culture</title>
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Compensation and culture
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Speaking (Tuesday) of corporate culture, one of the most important fundamentals of good corporate culture is fairness—especially in compensation.
Salary differences should be based on factual points, not charm, politics, or managerial whim.
So, how do you draw the lines to achieve fairness?
Number one with most people is peer relativity.
The people working [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: the human team</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: the human team
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Check out my other WW: innovate and soar

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		<title>What is corporate culture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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What is corporate culture?
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There are as many definitions and explanations of corporate culture as there are academics, consultants, coaches and every person who works now, has worked in the past or plans to work in the future.
But what about the &#8216;corporate&#8217; in corporate culture?
What is it other than a piece of [...]
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		<title>Book Review: Total Alignment: Integrating vision, strategy and execution for organizational success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Book Review: Total Alignment: Integrating vision, strategy and execution for organizational success
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Riaz Khadem&#8217;s Total Alignment: Integrating vision, strategy and execution for organizational success is scary. It&#8217;s scary for three reasons


the entire book makes perfect sense;
the approaches and solutions it offers are devastatingly simple; and
it&#8217;s a fast (just 150 pages), fun read—not [...]
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		<title>The manager you love to love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The manager you love to love
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Yesterday I described the manager you love to hate, so it&#8217;s only fair to offer up the flip side of that coin today.
What&#8217;s a major difference between the manager you like and the one you rave about?
What sets one above the other?
Rave-generating managers don&#8217;t just listen; [...]
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		<title>Management expertise</title>
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Management expertise
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Back when I was young in the business world I heard that the way to managerial success was to hire people smarter than yourself and then get out of their way.
Seems that happens less and less these days.
It constantly amazes me how many managers state strong views from positions of [...]
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		<title>The recognition of corporate culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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The recognition of corporate culture
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What a difference a dozen years make.
When RampUp Solutions started in San Francisco convincing entrepreneurs, let alone VCs, that culture was of critical importance, that corporate culture needed to be architected as carefully and consciously as any product and that hires needed to fit the culture and [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: corporate culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Wordless Wednesday: corporate culture
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Check out my other WW: strive

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		<title>Abuse as corporate culture</title>
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Abuse as corporate culture
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I frequently have people ask me for an example of a really bad corporate culture, especially after I write a post about a good one as I did yesterday. Sure, I know a number of them, but when it&#8217;s insider knowledge it&#8217;s dangerous to share, even if it&#8217;s [...]
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		<title>Ken Meador: a corporate culture that walks its talk</title>
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Ken Meador: a corporate culture that walks its talk
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If you have a soapbox you&#8217;ll understand the thrill that comes from finding others who have the same one.
My soapbox is corporate culture and those who walk their talk (AKA practice what they preach) and I just read about another guy ensconced on [...]
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		<title>Implementing recession-proofing advice (con&#8217;t 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Implementing recession-proofing advice (con&#8217;t 3)
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&#8216;Innovation&#8217; is one of the main themes permeating recession-proofing advice, but if you don&#8217;t already have an innovation-friendly culture you need to start by rectifying that or it ain&#8217;t gonna happen.
As you work to fix any cultural problems you found, you can work on small innovations, too. [...]
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Implementing recession-proofing advice (con&#8217;t 2)
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When the economy slows, Wall Street tends focus on cutting costs (of course, they do that in good times, too), but cutting is rarely enough put a company on a strong financial footing—only sales can do that.
And no matter what you&#8217;re selling or to whom, sales are [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: avoiding the worst</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Wordless Wednesday: avoiding the worst
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Don&#8217;t miss my other WW: the goal

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Implementing recession-proofing advice (con&#8217;t)
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Before you start grabbing all that great advice and slapping it willy-nilly on your company you need to take stock.
Take a step back and honestly look at your company&#8217;s culture and at yourself. This step is critical because you can&#8217;t change something of which you aren&#8217;t aware or [...]
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Implementing recession-proofing advice
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There&#8217;s a lot content out there right now on how to recession-proof your company. Most of the advice is good and much of it is similar, but…
Yeah, you knew there&#8217;d be a &#8216;but&#8217;.
It all revolves around stuff that should have been happening all along under the categories of good [...]
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		<title>Business humor brightens your day</title>
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Business humor brightens your day
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Good business laughs are hard to find these days, but they abound at Biz Levity. Mark Jabo and Sarit Catz
are masters at parody and satire.
Biz Levity offers all kinds of benefits; here are a few clips to wet your mouse.
Asian Stocks Surge Following 391 Point [...]
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		<title>Want some free help?</title>
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Want some free help?
Did you know that in England advice columns are written by so-called Agony Aunts?
Which seems a pretty accurate description when dealing with the often painful issues of corporate culture, motivation and management/leadership—which should be tightly interwoven.

I frequently get calls or emails looking for coaching, how-to&#8217;s or a quick fix to [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: just hired</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: just hired

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Be sure to visit my other WW: unwire and live!

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Fools for all seasons
Fools that we are (including me) we write and rarely read before hitting send. Sometimes we read during the sending, see the error and watch in horror as it winks into the ether.
During a discussion on the LinkedInBloggers egroup last week Steve Collins said, &#8220;I am *absolutely* no the side [...]
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MAP @ Slacker Manager
A few weeks ago I was talking with Phil Gerbyshak over at Slacker Manger and he described a new leadership approach he&#8217;s developing (no details, it&#8217;s still in stealth mode). I mentioned that its success would be very MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™) dependent.
Phil thought it would be interesting to compare [...]
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Miki&#8217;s Rules to Live by 15


Every so often I share one of the small pearls of wisdom by which I try and live my life.
Usually I can quote the source, but occasionally I&#8217;m forced to mark them anonymous and this is one of those times. (If you happen to know the source, please [...]
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Corporate culture I/O
Corporate culture has begotten a thriving industry that researches, dissects, writes, discusses, preaches, teaches, and studies it—all with the goal of helping people understand its effects and learn how to improve it.
It’s considered a soft science, a moving target, amorphous and difficult to pin down.
But I&#8217;ve always believed that corporate culture [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Ideal corporate culture</title>
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Wordless Wednesday: Ideal corporate culture

Be sure to visit my other WW—Mixed signals
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		<title>Accounting tools a part of corporate culture</title>
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Accounting tools a part of corporate culture
Gavin Cassar, a Wharton accounting professor, tested the prevailing wisdom of whether accounting techniques, such as budgeting, sales projections and financial reporting, would, in fact, help prevent business failures. In surprising results, he found that some accounting tools may actually lead them astray.
He found the culprit not [...]
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		<title>The value of risk</title>
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The value of risk

In an excellent post on risk, professor, researcher and author Bill Buxton says,&#8220;Entrepreneurs, like ice climbers, are often said to risk their necks. But there are ways to cut danger to sane levels—and some very good reasons to try&#8221;
People often comment that both groups are, politely speaking, nuts.
After offering up [...]
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		<title>Valuing your time in corporate culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Valuing your time in corporate culture
Ever wish you had a &#8220;get out of jail free&#8221; card for all those ill-conceived, poorly run meetings to which you&#8217;re routinely subjected?
&#8220;That&#8217;s why Mike Monteiro came up with meeting tokens—bumblebee-colored poker chips good for 15 minutes of a colleague&#8217;s attention, inscribed with a warning, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Waste My [...]
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		<title>Training and corporate culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Training and corporate culture
Some of you may have read that &#8220;Siemens Power Generation Inc. has been fined more than $10,000 for safety violations in a wind turbine tower collapse that killed one worker and injured another.&#8221;
Oregon&#8217;s Occupational Safety and Health Division investigated and found that &#8220;…workers were not properly instructed and supervised in [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: celebrate the difference!</title>
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		<title>To innovate, create room for Luftmenschen</title>
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To innovate, create room for Luftmenschen
Good post over at lifehack.org about productivity and why it&#8217;s about more than time management.
Rather than rewrite it I&#8217;m going to link you up with some stuff I&#8217;ve written previously that dovetails perfectly with the idea of Luftmenschen (people who deal in the non-tangible: ideas, thoughts, dreams).
I&#8217;ve written [...]
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		<title>To lie or not to lie…</title>
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To lie or not to lie…
A few days ago, I was talking about lying over at Leadership Turn.
A couple of weeks prior Robert Irvine, who starred in &#8220;Dinner Impossible&#8221; on the Food Network was fired for lying on his resume.
OK, lying isn&#8217;t unusual, the stats show that more than half do it and [...]
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		<title>Netflix&#8217;s bleeding-edge corporate culture</title>
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Netflix&#8217;s bleeding-edge corporate culture
As long-time readers know, I have a rabid interest in all things corporate culture.I especially like stories about the bleeding edge of corporate culture where radical new stuff is tried and those about entrepreneurs who lose their corporate culture as they grow, figure out what went wrong and do it [...]
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		<title>Working for the Woman</title>
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Working for the Woman
It&#8217;s funny how you&#8217;ll read several articles over a long period of time and suddenly your mind clicks and they go together. That&#8217;s what happened last night and I thought I&#8217;d share it with you.
First, in Business Week, The Workplace Gets Raunchier— 
&#8220;More women say they’re hearing “sexually inappropriate” comments [...]
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: the aging demographic is affecting everyone</title>
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		<title>5 keys to entrepreneurial (or any) success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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5 keys to entrepreneurial (or any) success
Good story over at Entrepreneur.com on 5 key ingredients that you&#8217;ll find in an entrepreneur and with a well-known example for each.
Passion is what drives Virgin&#8217;s Richard Branson&#8217;s insatiable appetite for starting companies as well as his adventurous streak and zest for life.
Positivity is what sparks Amazon&#8217;s [...]
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		<title>Pay for (non)performance</title>
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Pay for (non)performance
Last summer I wrote a post called How to succeed in business without really performing and I&#8217;m here to tell you the practice is alive and well.
Even in two of the most beleaguered companies.
&#8220;The compensation committee on Washington Mutual&#8217;s board looked like it was on the right track by not giving [...]
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		<title>How stupid can you get: be careful what you wish for…</title>
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How stupid can you get: be careful what you wish for…
I&#8217;m inaugurating a new category today called &#8216;how stupid can you get&#8217; and I hope that you&#8217;ll enjoy it. Along with the big stupid stories that come along I want to highlight the small stupid ones—frequently local. These are often the folks who [...]
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No innovation without the right corporate culture
Tuesday I wrote that corporate culture was the new black and here&#8217;s yet more proof for that notion.Over at Enterprise Innovation, IBM&#8217;s Linda Sanford writes that more than anything else it&#8217;s corporate culture that fosters innovation and &#8220;innovation can transform business, create new markets and drive economic [...]
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