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What’s the Impact When Someone Leaves the Team?
- June 14, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- coaching
- business
- management
- leadership
Guest author J. Mike Smith is a executive, career, and leadership team coach, helping individuals, start-ups, teams and groups perform significantly better. Turnover in organizations, whether by people moving on their own ...
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
- June 03, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- coaching
- business
- management
- leadership
Face it, we all do it: The job we’re hopeful we’ll land has no chance of ever showing up in an offer letter. That diet (mine in this case) that ...
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The Appropriate and Timely Use of “No,” and “But” and “Just.”
- May 29, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- coaching
- observations
- management
William Shakespeare wasn’t Roman or even Italian for that matter. But he clearly understood Latin. You should too. As I noted to a client startup CEO, there are times when you ...
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You’re the Boss: Learning from the Bad Behaviors of Others.
- May 09, 2013
- By Guest Author
- coaching
- business
- management
- leadership
What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies? “Plenty,” says Kathleen Brush, a 25-year veteran of international business and author of “The Power of One ...
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How to Get Back on Track After a Career Detour
- May 07, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- coaching
- business
- management
- hirings and firings
It happens. The job that was supposed to work out well, doesn’t. You parachute out of that job to take another that is not on the road map to a successful ...
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If someone shows you who they are, believe them.
- May 03, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- coaching
- observations
- management
“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” That is a quote from Maya Angelou. And if you listen to it carefully, you will hear a universal truth. We ...
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No Such Thing as a Bad Investment.
- April 29, 2013
- By Michael Lorton
- disruptors
- hirings and firings
- creativity
- business
- management
MarketWatch, a Dow Jones-owned website that should know better, published an article a little while ago called “The world's worst investors”, chock full of terrible, terrible advice. Which doesn't bother ...
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Wanted: Boat Rockers--Respected by Some, Scorned by Others.
- April 25, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- disruptors
- hirings and firings
- creativity
- business
- management
There are boats to rock, and boat rockers needed to rock them. Are you one of them? Avoiding questioning existing conditions in a dynamic, changing world is a recipe for mediocrity if ...
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Give them Some Feedback, and Watch them Improve.
- April 02, 2013
- By J. Mike Smith
- coaching
- business
- management
Sometimes the best thing you can do to help someone is a firm tap and playing a bit of a noodge. The fact of the matter is that people seldom improve without ...
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The Plane! The Plane! Larry Ellison Buys Airline for his Fantasy Island.
- March 16, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- travel
- technology
- hirings and firings
- business
- management
A few months ago, software giant Larry Ellison bought 98 percent of the land on the Hawaiian island of Lana'i. Now he’s bought a small commuter airline that services the ...
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