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Do these five things well and you’ll make money and keep your best people

Keys To Employee Engagement Purpose At Work

This is a great post by Josh Bersin at Forbes if you’re the type of person who believes in employee engagement and the development of corporate culture, which you might not be. (This might be your attitude.) I recommend you… Continue Reading

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Your team has no self-awareness, and that’s why they don’t get projects done

Self-Awareness Important To Business

Actually thinking for a second about what you do and why you do it — rather than just headlong racing into it — can actually make a huge difference in your success (even to teams believe this stuff is a “soft skill”). Continue Reading

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So wait, what are you so busy with anyway?

I could probably write an entire book on this concept, but for right here and right now, I’ll limit it to a dinky little blog post. I’ve already written about “The Busy Trap” once (here), and when I repurposed that… Continue Reading

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Maybe we should stop talking about “lead generation”

Pretty interesting post on Forrester about “The Sales Enablement Forum,” which was apparently an event a few weeks back in Scottsdale, Arizona. Quick word of caution: if you’re very wary of business buzzwords, I’d probably avoid reading that post linked above… Continue Reading

Management advice: Tell people what you want done, not how to do it

Manage By Telling People WHAT, not HOW

Was scrolling through Forbes this morning and came across this article, which is predominantly about Sheryl Sandberg trying to ban the word “bossy” from business discourse. I personally have really mixed feelings about Sheryl Sandberg (more on that at another… Continue Reading

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Do we think Thomas Rouland is involved in the disappearance of Kimberly Rouland?

Kimberly Rouland Missing

Here are most of the basics of this case, notably: Siskavich’s girlfriend, Kimberly Rouland, 32, was reported missing on Feb. 10. Her estranged husband, Thomas Rouland, 37, told police she left their Arcadia residence the previous night at 6:30 p.m.… Continue Reading

Holiday Inn Express just killed all the Baby Boomers

Millennials Love Automation At Hotels

Here’s an article from Fast Company on the redesign of Holiday Inn Express hotels (only in Europe for now // more on that in a second); the article is kind of odd and written in a coy, flirty way where… Continue Reading

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68 percent of managers AREN’T engaged in their employees’ career development. WTF?

68 Percent of Managers Don't Guide Their Employees' Careers

Right Management — a subdivision of Manpower Group — did a survey about career development and managers’ roles within it. Here are the results. Here’s probably the section you should pop a couple of Ambien before you read: According to the… Continue Reading