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Archive for August, 2009

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The Dark Knight vs. Aliens and Terminators … a Business Case Study?

It’s not often you can mix Batman, Aliens and Terminators in a business case study article. And it be completely true.

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Top 10 Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee … for Business or Life

Sure you know Bruce Lee the martial artist and movie star. But do you know Bruce Lee the philosopher, comedian or master of personal development?

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Best Channel Partner Practices: How to Exceed Customer Expectations:

The myth of being able to grow a product, division or entire company without first enriching others is gone. The truth is that only by overbalancing the scales of service to channel partners including distributors, dealers and resellers can a company hope to keep growing.

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Eight Ways to Engage Employees and Power-Up Performance During a Recession

These are tough times. How to keep employees engaged, positive and pumped?

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Should You Care if Your Employees Love You?

Should You Care if Your Employees Love You?

Wwhat happens when your desire to be loved interferes with your ability to lead?

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Storytelling – A Leadership Development Tool

Storytelling is a powerful leadership tool. How? It puts you in touch with your authentic power so you can motivate and inspire your audience.

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Mad Magazine, Mini-Coopers, Me and LEAN

Mad Magazine, Mini-Coopers, Me and LEAN

EDITORS NOTE: This is a story only the inimitable Lou Washington,   Master of MIPS, and the Wyatt ERP of  Cincom Manufacturing Business Solutions could string together and eventually make sense. Hold on. LEAN BUSINESS PRINCIPLES … AND MAD MAGAZINE How can “Lean” principles help you not only survive … but thrive in these turbulent times? [...]

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Why Leaders Fail

The six warning signs of impending leadership failure.

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How to Make Clear, Simple, Concise Writing … Immortal?

How a famous poet can teach us that being a truly accomplished writer means knowing when to turn a beautiful phrase and when to speak plainly.

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Creative Strategy is Garbage

90% of everything is garbage, and I’m not referring to the tremendous growth in waste disposal and recycling.

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Optimizing Sourcing and Supply Chain Decisions To Improve Profitability

How to do it?

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Authority is the Tool of Neanderthal Managers

Authority is the tool of Neanderthal managers. The people-side of enterprise is where the gold is buried. Then why are all the people-managing/-motivating-manipulating models so complex and so often rooted in psycho-babble?

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Mind Our Mindsets … Move the World

The economy. Gas prices. Housing. Credit crisis. Healthcare. Education. War. Terrorism. Yes. We face significant problems. Can the problems we face be solved by the same minds that created them?