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The Moving Line: As we have come to know over time, things don’t fit in convenient boxes and don’t tend to stay in the boxes we mentally house them in. That which was once deviant because it was new and unfamiliar may in fact now be acceptable, or at least accepted. And acceptance has nothing to do with the ability to police. Commensurately, our responses to what was considered deviant likely needs to evolve. 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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What's Wrong With Being Wrong?: Why are you so afraid of being wrong? The posturing in our companies to be right, or at least not in proximity of wrong is ubiquitous. It is a sad state of affairs for many. Being wrong can be so right in so many situations. read more
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About "The Drucker Perspective":
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Focus on Opportunity: Becoming opportunity focused requires work and thinking. It requires more than slogans. It requires practices that can be practiced. read more
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In Search of “Perfection”: DO Sweat The Small Stuff: We are entering a new era of intense competition with countries that strive for excellence. Indeed, they demand it! To be truly successful, one has to strive to get a little closer to excellence. Hopefully, passion for the work being done drives our need for perfection. read more
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GM vs. Drucker: Management Science vs. Management Practice: Why is getting the "what" right so critical today? In the global information age, managers are inundated with a nonstop flow of real-time information. This information flow brings about change at a breakneck speed unlike anything businesses have experienced before. read more
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Plugging the Leaks in Social Media: Corporate security breaches and employee conduct in cyberspace are of increasing concern as the use of social media permeates our society. read more
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Dealing with Bullying and Incivility: [Editor's Note: This is the debut of a monthly column designed to be a forum to discuss ethical issues that arise in daily business read more
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Workplace Romances – When Love Is In the Air: What are the legal concerns that should be kept in mind when addressing workplace relationships? read more
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HR as a Knowledge Center: Knowledge and information is HR’s commodity. With one of HR’s responsibilities being compliance with the myriad U.S. employment laws that apply to your company, knowledge of those laws, and the actions your company needs to take to be in compliance and avoid law suites, is HR’s stock in trade. read more
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Sick Leave Gone Haywire: I know we’re all busy, but HR managers really need to train their managers on human resources basics. Take this sick-leave situation which demonstrates the type of scenarios I’ve had to deal with regularly—a real comedy of errors when they are all strung together. read more
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Why Is It That Training Never Gets a Seat at the Table?: Lately, I’ve been going to a lot of events. I just hit my 3 rd in two weeks. At each event there are breakout sessions and roundtables to 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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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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The Most Peculiar Leadership Model: For a long time, management guru Peter Drucker failed to acknowledge the importance of one major concept of management: leadership. He realized that the basic elements of all business were but two: marketing and innovation, and eventually realized good leadership was essentially a "marketing job." read more
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You Must Know Your Strengths: Drucker wrote that most people think they know their own strengths, but that they are almost invariably wrong. This is because there will always be faults in any individual, even the most effective and successful. If you focus only on avoiding faults to the extent that you ignore your strengths and their development, you will be making a major mistake. read more
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Peter Drucker and the Accomplishing of More with Less: Everyone knows that despite what top leaders sometimes demand, you can’t do more with less— or can you? Drucker said that you could, and went on to prove it. Read on and learn how to do“the impossible” through the genius of Drucker with a little help from a 19th century Italian economist. read more
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How Transparent are Your Practices?: Take all of the same work styles of your current department and stick them in any other company. What's different? What's the same? It's easy to say that your co-workers are all different, but is your process different? How so? read more
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The Value of Honesty in a Down Economy: “I met with a recruiter several weeks ago. I thought it went well; but looking back at the meeting, I got pumped for leads but never actually heard back from them.” read more
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Do You “Use” User Groups or Do They “Use” You?: User groups tend to be a group of individuals that specialize in a particular area that meet once a month to listen to a subject matter expert speak. Most times, these groups are sponsored by recruiting firms. 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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Call to Action—Alternative Work Arrangements: We’ve heard the statistics about 78 million boomers all being 55 and older 11 years from now, and the predictions from the Bureau of Labor read more
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About The Culture Club:
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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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Stay Interviews: A Retention Strategy for Forward Thinking Organizations: Has anybody ever thought about the logic of asking people why they are leaving when they have already one foot out the door? I remember during an read more
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