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The Online University App: Blending "Rah-Rah" and Success Measures:: Companies use various means to create and stir the workforce to be engaged, productive and happy. HR has to find the means to animate and align employees with company objectives to achieve unity of focus and enhance productivity. But that is not enough-- accountability has to be factored in. Targets have to be established and ways found to track and measure progress toward goals. This can’t be solely “rah-rah” and group rant. This is serious business. read more
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4 Examples of What Mentors Can Offer the Walking Wounded: It is required to identify a unique source of direction and to search for developmental options which are incremental—that stretch existing managerial levels and roles beyond current limits and even job descriptions—but which also break new ground horizontally. Although a number of such options are available, the four examples below may suggest the range of what mentors can genuinely offer the walking wounded. read more
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Mentoring and Managing of Discontent in the Upper Ranks: One of the unintended consequences of virtually all leadership development programs is discontent. Conceived as a journey only to the top, when it falls short—as numerically it has to—many are unhappily left behind. But what can be done? read more
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Exploiting Demographic Change in Your Organization: Many thought that the apparent insanity of the post-World War II generation was due to having missed the character-building challenges of the Depression and the sacrifices of World War II and that they were therefore spoiled by having life too easy and missing lessons wrought by pain and struggle. Not so, according to Drucker. He explained this period as a predictable phenomenon-- a shift in demographics. read more
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Marketing And Selling May Be Adverserial: “Marketing and selling are not necessarily complementary and may even be adversarial.” I had heard Drucker make some rather unusual statements during the two years that I had been his student, but this certainly had to be one of the most astonishing. Yet he was right. read more
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Success by Abandoning Success: Drucker’s concept of abandonment comes from the dynamics of knowledge advancement and requires a single imperative for every organization: management of change has to be instilled at the cellular level, that is, in the organization’s very structure. read more
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Mr. Smith Goes to Wall Street: For years, we in management have been talking about Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, etc. We have read countless articles and blogs on how different they are from the prior generations we have managed. We know those under 35 have lived a much different existence than the over-40s and have a different view of themselves, the world, and what work means. Greg Smith pointed this out in a fairly productive way in his NY Times op-ed.. read more
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No, Thank You: Very often, the best we can strive for is to avoid getting something we don’t need or shouldn’t have. A few more “no, thank you’s” in our world may well lead to happier and more successful people and companies. read more
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Stop To Think. Rush To Execute.: In any endeavor of relevance nearly every time I have ventured forth without the structure of a plan, I have found that my time and energy have (to say the least) not been rewarded. I attribute any success achieved in the absence of a plan pure luck. read more
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About "The Drucker Perspective":
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3 Ways to Increase the Productivity of the Knowledge Worker: Productivity of knowledge and service workers will soon become a major issue as creeping inflation becomes more apparent... and workers ask for wage read more
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Will the MBA Degree Become Less Valuable in the Near-Future?: Peter F. Drucker once commented, "In the academic disciplines a student cannot perform...he or she can only show promise…" read more
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How Peter Drucker Changed My Life: “People, I realized, were what I valued and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery,” wrote the late Peter Drucker to read more
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Plugging the Leaks in Social Media: The news media is filled with reports of sensitive government information leaked to and posted on the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. The read more
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Challenging the Boss on Principle: Most of us would agree that good ethics is good for business and bad ethics is bad for business. However, this basic concept begs the question, read more
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16 Tips for Being Professional as you Say NO to the Chaos Around You: The goal is not to minimize distractions but to manage them for positive results. Here are real-life proven techniques that get people talking about read more
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Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders: Leadership is the art of transforming how people think, feel and act. Though some experts make it seem complicated, it really has only two elements: read more
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Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods: Twitterville is primarily a business book. It is filled with examples of how people in all sizes and kinds of business are using Twitter to thrive read more
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Legal Pitfalls of Employees That Telecommute: Telecommuting could seem like a win-win situation for employers and employees, especially with the price of gasoline. However, there are a few pitfalls HR managers should watch out for when company managers suggest (or employees request) telecommuting... read more
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The Social Media Password Debate: Apparently, in response to the legal cases reprimanding employers for improperly obtaining access to their employees’ and applicants’ personal social media sites, employers came up with what would seem to be a very effective work-around—demanding the passwords or threatening termination or cessation of the application process. Really? read more
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An Employee By Any Other Name Is Still An Employee: Misclassification Woes: In late 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at efforts to halt what they termed “the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” read more
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About The Culture Club:
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Good Human Resources During Bad Times: If organizations are living things, then the human beings who work there are the cells of the body. If the health of the body (i.e. the culture) is read more
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Let’s Ship All the Jobs to China!: I had an interesting conversation at a recent IQPC Talent Management Summit in Las Vegas. While having dinner with a vice president of human read more
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How Culture Affects Onboarding: Eighty percent of all new employees decide within the first six months if they are going to stay with their current employers or begin looking for “new opportunities.” Whether this figure is the result of research or not (or simply overblown), it does point out the importance of quickly incorporating new hires into the workplace. read more
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Talent Strategies in an Economic Crisis: We are facing some really tremendous economic challenges this year. No matter which industry or cycle of business you're in, we’re all read more
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The Most Dangerous Job in Corporate America: CMO: Most successful CMOs hold accountability for the numbers and also lead product development, promotion and advertising, retention/loyalty and sales. These CMOs know the numbers, why they are the way they are and who is responsible for pulling that particular lever in the business. Based on that, they drive action in targeted areas when we needed to build on momentum or close gaps. read more
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Monogamy, Polygamy or Just Engaged?: The search for talent is complex and requires the skill of a mature professional who understands both business and the people who have the critical read more
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