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• Change: What Gets In The Way?
  on May 7, 2012 in Change & Transitions Leadership
  Defending the status quo. "That will never work." "... That said, the labor laws make it difficult for us to do a lot of the suggestions [you] put out. And we do live in a lawsuit oriented society."" "Can you...
• Do You Use Verbal White Space?
  on Apr 24, 2012 in Communication
  Graphic designers know how to focus your attention. They frequently communicate through the use of white space. Less is more. The message is clear. There's no clutter. Use Verbal Whitespace You can increase your verbal impact the same way. How...
• "What Do I Want To Be?" or "What Do I Want To Become?"
  on Apr 16, 2012 in CEO Succession Inspiration & Motivation Leadership Learning
  Which question are you asking yourself? Your choice will help determine the depth of your life as well as the comfort-level of your career. I've been watching a new CEO client begin his tenure at a global company. He is...
• Meetings: The First 15 Minutes Matter
  on Apr 9, 2012
  Beginnings make a huge difference. Meetings offer a perfect example. I was working with a VP who started off her 3-day, first quarter meeting with a 20 minute introduction. In that 20 minutes she crisply and energetically laid out: The...
• Wisdom, Integrity, Discernment and 1,000 Posts
  on Apr 2, 2012 in Leadership Organizational Effectiveness
  This is the 1,000th post here at All Things Workplace! Today's post was first published in 2007 and I decided to bring it back today because of its depth of meaning and the fact that the number of comments prompted...
• Manage Talent: Build Managers
  on Mar 26, 2012 in Talent Management
  Here's a lead from a Management-Issues article that caught my attention: "The focus of many American businesses on nurturing and grooming their top-level talent is masking a growing crisis further down the management scale – with more than half adm...
• Be Unique And Get With The Program
  on Mar 19, 2012 in Careers
  "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) Teenagers are my favorite people to watch. Their crusade to be different leads them to dress alike, talk alike, and act alike. They...
• 360 Feedback: It's About the Conversation
  on Mar 12, 2012 in Coaching/Mentoring Leadership Learning
  Finding out "how we're doing" is an important part of life, on and off the job. 360 degree feedback tools can be especially helpful when you want to know how you are doing in relation to your boss, your direct...
• Paying Attention to People
  on Mar 8, 2012 in Influence Learning Management
  I received an email from a reader requesting "a post I recalled reading about 'paying attention to people.' " I think this was the one from December, 2009. The original experiment and its impact on management and human behavior is...
• Business or Busyness?
  on Mar 5, 2012 in Emotional Intelligence Leadership
  Recently I met with a corporate Executive VP in New York City. I'll call him Phil. Phil said his division was struggling. But instead of leading the charge to turn things around, he was being called into meetings regularly to...

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