Monthly Archives: January 2012

Co-Creation: Hearing the Music

admin by January 31, 2012

Co-creation is a powerful innovative force across a wide variety of industries, from software to semiconductors to toys to music.  It is also a way to create a deeper relationship with customers that is harder for competitors to copy.  Co-creation can revive…

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Say Thank You More Often – from author Amy Lyman

admin by January 28, 2012

Saying thank you to colleagues, staff members, associates, and people more distantly connected to us is an annual year-end ritual for many people in leadership positions.  Speeches, memos, newsletter articles and blog posts are often filled with lists of peoples names…

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New Truths About Marketing Success

admin by January 26, 2012

CEOs and Boards are demanding that Marketing become a strategic growth driver and catalyst for profitable growth. To meet that demand, Marketing must make certain that its insights pervade the organization, thereby helping the company drive its growth agenda and…

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Collaboration and the Cloud – from Dan Sanker

admin by January 24, 2012

While information technology professionals around the world are embracing cloud computing, many executives are taking a wider view to determine whether the freedom of its functionality can extend beyond the IT realm.

Cloud-based computing is a pretty simple concept to…

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Organizational Culture and Leadership, 4th Edition, by Edgar H. Schein

admin by January 23, 2012

Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization…

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What Is Organizational Culture, and Why Should I Care?

admin by January 23, 2012

Culture can be thought of as the foundation of the social order that we live in and of the rules we abide by.  The “rules” of the social order make it possible to predict social behavior, get along with each other,…

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New Free Mobile App from Patrick Lencioni

admin by January 20, 2012

In Patrick Lencioni’s highly-anticipated forthcoming book The Advantage he makes the claim that the last competitive advantage in business today is organizational health.

He explains, “Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, and are free of politics and confusion.”

The simplest way…

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The FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For

admin by January 19, 2012

Today is the day FORTUNE released their annual Best Companies to Work For list. Google once again reclaimed the top spot on the list, with Boston Consulting Group, SAS, Wegmans Food Markets, and Edward Jones rounding out the…

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Big News from Frances Hesselbein

admin by January 18, 2012

Today it was announced that the organization formerly known as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management has been officially renamed The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. The news was announced today online and in a message from…

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Tim Scudder – Can’t We All Just Get Along? (Video)

jray by January 18, 2012

Conflict costs American companies $359 billion every year. In their book, Have a Nice Conflict, authors Tim Scudder, Michael Patterson, and Kent Mitchell provide tools to help you understand and take control over conflict in your organization.

To…

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