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  • Activating your learning investment

    Activating your learning investment

    Instead, after you read, what can you do? Here are eight specific ideas… Summarize for colleagues Make reference notes Create an action plan – do something Blog about it Forward the book to a friend or colleague Reach out to the author on their site Join a discussion group on [More]

  • Six Top Thought Leadership Articles

    Six Top Thought Leadership Articles

    For most people in senior roles, the holy grail of recognition is embodied in two terms: Thought Leadership and Trusted Advisor.  Yet too often, these very terms are thrown around, overused, and just perhaps, may be losing their value. Notwithstanding this, the underlying concepts are powerful - with a matching value in the marketplace. [More]

  • Baseline Capability and Campaigns

    Baseline Capability and Campaigns

    Have you ever been in a situation where despite your best efforts, you cannot make headway?  Or where you feel like a fish swimming upstream?  This inertia - resistance to the new - is a key reason why implementing change is so difficult.  It's also why selling new products to [More]

  • LinkedInvestment:  Eight ways to improve your Social ROI

    LinkedInvestment: Eight ways to improve your Social ROI

    If you spend 10 minutes on LinkedIn each business day for the last two years, you've made an investment of 86 hours... or two weeks of vacation. Up that to 15 minutes, and you've gobbled three weeks over the year.  How satisfied are you with the return on your time [More]

  • Corporate Success Factors

    Corporate Success Factors

    It's always easy to look at other organizations - or other people - and marvel at their incredible foresight, acumen, and investment.  To look at some of the most successful companies and their products - Apple and Google come to mind - and say "They were just lucky" is too [More]

  • Tools of the Trade

    Tools of the Trade

    If you are reading this and profess to have some expertise in Social Media, then you may be offended by my next comment: it soon won't matter, and your "expertise" is fast becoming irrelevant. Your long term career is in jeopardy, and your short term prospects are also questionable. Note [More]

  • Consistency builds trust

    Consistency builds trust

    How often have you struggled to show up on time for a meeting, only to be kept waiting as others stumbled in 5-10-15 minutes later? Or have you ever tuned in to your favorite TV show, only to find that it was "rescheduled" for some other time? Or travelled to [More]

  • Good to Great… Attitude

    Good to Great… Attitude

    We all know that having a great attitude is important, but what if you have always seen the glass as half empty? Is it possible to learn to see it half full? The answer, thankfully, is yes. Read on for ten tips that can turn around a bad attitude, or [More]

  • Verbalization

    Verbalization

    Did you ever think that you would appreciate the grammar that you learned back in grade school? While writers (and grade school teachers) might be concerned with nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech, is there any reason you should be? The answer is yes... but perhaps not for the [More]

  • What’s your Foundation?

    What’s your Foundation?

    Architects know that a strong building needs a strong foundation. The architect specifies deep excavations, concrete basements, pillars, and metal girders for this reason. For businesses, a strong foundation means adequate financing, a committed management team, and a product or service that has a strong market demand. Teachers understand foundations [More]

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