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Organizational Development

How to Get a Great Start: “Back to School”

September 2, 2010

The art of the good, strong start is something that many of us should master, but few of us seldom do. Why? Probably because it’s a little like that set of occasions (weddings, funerals, baptisms and bar/bas mitzvahs etc.) that happen enough to notice but seldom enough to avoid generating a best practice mindset. Many [...]

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[Life Back West] August 2010 – “Great Expectations”

August 26, 2010

When you love your child as much as I do my 8 year-old son Traylor, serious discipline seldom seems simple or easy. But when you start from a point of promise, it also helps to start with the values to support and nurture those hopes. The failure to follow our family’s values got my son [...]

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Can Good Guys Finish First?

August 5, 2010

You work hard, try to do the right thing, and frequently put the interests of others ahead of your own. You’re a good guy. But does that mean you’ll be a success? “Nice guys finish last” is an adage we all know, and it suggests that not only do nice people do poorly in the [...]

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[Life Back West] July 2010 – “Risky Business”

July 22, 2010

Life is full of risks, and as a subset, business and the managing of organizations is perhaps even riskier. Managing those risks better is what separates proverbial losers from winners. “Risk taking,” football player Jim McMahon once noted, “is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be sure-thing-taking.” That hot product that sold like wildfire last month [...]

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One-Off Date or Relationship?

June 12, 2010

There are at least two ways to view the people with whom you work, live, and associate. One end of that spectrum is to think that every engagement point with somebody is a transaction, which may, or more likely may not, be repeated. Think of it as the one-off date mindset. The other end of [...]

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Start-Up Tips for Great Company Builders: When Culture Goes Bad – Google Sued for Age Discrimination

May 30, 2010

Culture is the glue that holds organizations together. But make culture exclusionary, and it becomes a force that suffocates talent, and eventually business achievement. [Updated: See the New York Times Corner Office interview from May 30th: For the Chief of Saks, It's Culture that Drive Results] Not only is culture everywhere, it’s notable. Thick cultures [...]

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