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Employees Cut Corners

By Gwen Moran
November 13, 2018
Fast Company

Gwen explains four reasons why employees cut corners related to business processes.

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Strategic Thinking

By John Sullivan
December 13, 2016

Leaders want employees with strategic thinking ability and employees often wonder how to develop it. Sullivan discusses how to interview candidates to determine his or her ability, but his article provides a nice summary for anyone.

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Business Process Improvement still tops the list

In Sierra-Cedar's annual survey, BPI still tops the list of areas where companies plan to spend 25% or more of their time and resources.

Volunteer to participate in their next survey!

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15 Expert Tips to Increase Reader Comments on Blog Posts

By Nina Amir
July 12, 2016

Interesting ideas of how to get more responses to your blog posts.

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7 Leadership Lessons from Brexit

By Julian Birkinshaw
June 28, 2016

Birkinshaw outlines what leaders can learn from the British vote to leave the EU. I particularly like #7.

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How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview

By Rebecca Knight
February 26, 2016

Knight provides great pointers to assist with this important networking event. It's a difficult thing to do right and you will find this article helpful.

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LinkedIn or Blogs?

By: Alexandra Samuel
June 30, 2015
Harvard Business Review

Samuel's article "Have LinkedIn and Medium Killed the Old-Fashioned Bog?" provides insight around what platform to use for what purpose.

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Is How You Deliver Feedback Doing More Harm than Good?

By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
August 10, 2015
Harvard Business Review

Good insight into 5 things you may do wrong when delivering feedback.

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Digital Marketing Tips

By: Jeff Bullas
Posted June 23, 2015
Jeffbullas.com

67 insights from the world's top digital marketing experts - a variety of inputs.

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Ways to Find Internal Expertise

By: Andrew Shipilov and Robert J. Crawford
June 18, 2015
Harvard Business Review

Discusses one company's approach to finding internal resources and reducing email.

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Why Leaders are Easier to Coach than Followers

By: Kate Adams
March 5, 2015
Harvard Business Review

Good article on Followers including the plus and minus of this type of employee.

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The Best Leaders "Talk the Walk"
By: Bill Taylor
Harvard Business Review
August 7, 2014

It's not "Walk the Talk," but "Talk the Walk." Interesting article on an approach to engaging employees.

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