From the monthly archives:

January 2010

[Tips for Teams & Talent] What’s “Glee” Got to Do With It?

January 31, 2010

Glee, the Fox TV show in its first season that just garnered a Golden Globe for best comedy television series, has something for everybody: jocks, nerds, deceivers, beauty queens, and true believers. The regular glee, a choir activity in which people both sing and dance – like the TV show – provides a great illustration [...]

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[Tips for Women Entrepreneurs ] “I Can Do That”

January 30, 2010

I hope to have coffee soon with a friend I’ll call “Margie.” While it won’t be Wizard of Oz dialogue (Cowardly Lion: “What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!”), there will some similarities. And those similarities will have a lesson for entrepreneurs who are female. For starters, the impact and power and roles [...]

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[Life Back West] Leadership & Boards of Directors: Proof of the Pudding is in the Performance

January 27, 2010

The best adage I know for good cooking is captured in the phrase “Proof of the pudding is in the eating.” For teams, the perfect saying might as well be “Proof of the team is in the performance.” And while we’ll hear a lot about good and bad teams over the next couple of months [...]

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[Recruiting] How to Say “No Thanks” to Candidates – Facebook and Others

January 24, 2010

Organizations tell you lots of about themselves from how they deal and treat applicants. The task, for candidates, is to make sure you’ve got your radar up, and don’t bliss out and fall in love to the point were you stop tracking all the things that go on in front of you. If a company [...]

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[Coaching] 2 Ways to Increase Your Effectiveness: Two Sides, Same Coin

January 21, 2010

The challenge for most of us is to do more with less: less time, fewer resources, and do it more efficiency and effectively. Sounds like a tall order but grabbing a moment to pause, think, and then act will frequently help you do all three. Pulling rabbits out of hats? Nope. Just performance basics that [...]

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[Tips for Company Founders] Paging Betty Crocker: Culture is not a Cake Mix

January 19, 2010

A chuckle was the first reaction when I saw Ann Handley’s (@marketingprofs) retweet of Ted Minnini’s post – For Sale: Business Culture – on the retailing of the Zappos culture. Zappos founder and CEO Tony Hseih – whose company was recently sold to Amazon – has been offering 2 days seminars for people to learn [...]

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