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Forming a Different Kind of Alliance

Trust. Loyalty. Lifetime employment. I think most of you would agree these words don’t really apply to today’s workplace. As Ben Casnocha pointed out during…

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Dismantling Empires Through Devolution

Last week, the world’s most globe-spanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain…

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Need To Get Creative? How To Create An Idea Space

Where you work is how you think. Your immediate surroundings determine your mindset, the way you generate ideas and solve problems. You can’t break institutional…

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Landing a Client, Courting a Partner

Valentine’s day conversations led me to the realization that both single and coupled people I know use terms and strategies similar to those used in…

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Preparing U.S. Leadership For The Cultural Demographic Shift in 2015

Hispanics along with African Americans and Asian Pacific Islanders surpassed one third of the U.S. population in 2010.  As their numbers continue to rise, they…

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Why No One’s Responding To Your Cold Emails

The following is an excerpt from The Predictable Revenue Guide To Tripling Your Sales. Your new email mantra: “simple to understand, easy to answer” We’ve…

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Team Building Without Time Wasting Marshall Goldsmith and Bill Hawkins Teams seem to be becoming more and more common and important.  Management theorists and organizations…

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Coaching for Behavioral Change (Adapted from The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, edited by: H. Morgan, P. Harkins and M. Goldsmith, Wiley, 2005) By:…

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The Benefits of Being Managed

It’s been more than sixteen years since I’ve had a boss. When we started The Table Group in 1997, for the first time in my…

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How to Create Better Ideas Faster

Have you ever tried to get your team to brainstorm a breakthrough idea for a product or service only to find the process mostly yields…

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PPV (Purchase Price Variance) is a Stupid Metric

Purchase Price Variance (PPV) is a procurement metric that’s designed to measure a procurement organization’s (or an individual procurement professional’s) effectiveness at meeting cost savings…

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Why You Lead Determines How Well You Lead with Thomas Kolditz

One of the most telling questions you can ask someone in any kind of leadership role is what motivates them to be a better leader.…

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